Camps Quinoline Synthesis

R. Camps, Ber. 22, 3228 (1899); Arch. Pharm. 237, 659 (1899); 239, 591 (1901).

Formation of hydroxyquinolines from o-acylaminoacetophenones in alcoholic sodium hydroxide. Two isomers are produced; the relative proportions are mainly determined by the residue on the amino nitrogen:

R. H. F. Manske, Chem. Rev. 30, 127 (1942); B. Witkop et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 73, 2641 (1951); J. Bornstein et al., ibid. 76, 2760 (1954); R. C. Elderfield, Heterocyclic Compounds 4, 60 (1952); H. Yanagisawa et al., Chem. Pharm. Bull., 21, 1080 (1973).