摘要

A convenient, efficient and inexpensive procedure for the synthesis of thieno[2,3-b]quinolines was devised. 3-Formyl-2-chloroquinoline 2a on treating with various substituted anilines 3a-e produced N-[(1E)-(2-chloroquinolin-3-yl)methylidene]anilines 4a-e. The resulted compounds on further treatment with chloroacetyl chloride gave substituted azetidinones 5a-e. These compounds are easily converted to thieno[2,3-b]quinolines 6a-e by using sodium sulfide in ethanol. The structures of all the newly synthesized compounds were elucidated on the basis of elemental analysis, IR, H-1 NMR and mass spectral data. [GRAPHICS] .