IntroductionQuinones are widespread in nature [1,2] (in plants, fungi, bacteria etc.), and many synthetic or natural quinones possess various pharmacological properties including anticancer [3][4][5], antibacterial [6], antifungal [6], antiinflammatory [7], antimycobacterial [8], and molluscicidal [9] activities. Moreover, substituents such as halogen, amino, thio groups of the synthetic quinone derivatives can increase their pharmacological activities, such as antibacterial, cytotoxic, and antiproliferative [3,10,11]. Quinonoid systems' pharmacological specialties are related to their capacity to produce free radicals or semiquinones in redox reactions [11][12][13].Among quinones, 1,4-naphthoquinone scaffold are found in many natural or synthetic products such as menadione, juglone, plumbagin, alkannin, and shikonin [14-16]. In addition, 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives have receieved a considerable interest in biological applications with their antibacterial [11], antiatherosclerosis [17], antiinflammatory [18], anticancer [5,18], and cytotoxic [19] activities. Thus, many reports on the reactions of 1,4-naphthoquinones with amines [3,5,13], anilines [11,20], phenols [21], thiols [3,5,22], aminopyridine [23], alcohol [24,25], glycol [25] are available in the literature. In this study, compounds 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 19, 20 have NH-and NH,SR-substituted-1,4-naphthoquinone skeleton, respectively.The literature mentions some aminobenzocrown ethers [26,27] similar to 15 and 17. For example, N-(2-chloro-1,4naphthoquinon-3-yl)-4'-aminobenzocrown ethers were synthesized from the reaction between 4'-aminobenzocrown ethers and 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone [26], and thus in the present study, synthesis of 15 and 17 contribute to crown-containing naphthoquinones, carrying out the reaction between crown ethers (14 and 16) and 2-bromo-1,4naphthoquinone (4). Moreover, crown-containing naphthoquinone 19 was synthesized, including both amino and thio substituents, together.1,4-benzoquinones, including NH-, methoxy, thio, alkyl or aryl groups, have been the subject of study due to their properties such as antimicrobial [28], antibacterial [29], cytotoxic [30][31][32], potential urease inhibitor [33], and potent inhibitory activity towards enzyme system [34]. In addition, some of studies on the formation of N(H)-, SR-, alkoxy substituted-1,4-benzoquinones have been reported in the literature [34][35][36][37][38]. Among 1,4-benzoquinones, halogenanils, such as chloranil, with amines yield amination products of quinones. For example, Wu H et al. reported tetrathiafulvalenequinone dyad, having mono-NH-substituted-tri-chloro-1,4-benzoquinone structure [38]. In another example, Sing and et al. synthesized [39] new coordination polymers, starting from 2,5-dichloro-3,6-bis(ethylamino)-1,4-benzoquinone. In this study, compounds 6 and 7 have mono-NH-substituted-tri-chloro-1,4-benzoquinone and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-bis(NH-