Development of the catalytic synthesis of compounds of the quinoline series (the N. S. Kozlov reaction) (Review)*

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (in 1929-1959 the Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the BSSR). It contains a review of the advances in the synthesis and properties of condensed heterocyclic systems containing a quinoline fragment – derivatives of quinaldine, benzo[f]quinoline, indeno- and indoloquinoline, benzo[a]phenanthridine, benzoacridine, tetrahydroquinoline, 1,7- and 4,7-phen-anthroline. The reactions forming the basis of the synthesis of the heterocycles are described – catalytic reaction of amines with acetylene, catalytic condensation of azomethines with methyl and α-methylene ketones, triple-component condensation of arylamines, carbonyl compounds, and CH acids.