“…The distributions of the aromatic bond lengths in both compounds are in good agreement with that calculated for quinoline (Dewar & Gleicher, 1966), and with those observed in different derivatives of quinoline (Stankovic et al 1976;Kashino & Haisa, 1973;Polyakova et al 1980;Banerjee et al 1984) and other N-heterocyclic compounds like the acridines (Achari & Neidle, 1977;Courseille, Leroy, Hospital & Barbet, 1977). The endocyclic bond angles of the present molecules are also close to the values observed in similar structures (Stankovic et al 1976;Kashino & Haisa, 1973;Prout & Wheeler, 1967;Castellano & Prout, 1971;Banerjee et al 1984). In (I), the C-C1 bond length and the angle ipso to C1 indicate that the CI atom acts as an electron-withdrawing group and has no conjugative effect (Domenicano, Vaciago & Coulson, 1975).…”