Abstract: | 8‐Chloro‐9‐fluoro‐5‐phenyl‐3,4,4a,5,6,10b‐hexahydro‐2H‐pyrano3,2‐c]quinoline and 10‐chloro‐9‐fluoro‐5‐phenyl‐3,4,4a,5,6,10b‐hexahydro‐2H‐pyrano3,2‐c]quinoline, both C18H17ClFNO, are diastereoisomers, formed as the result of the imino Diels–Alder reactions of N‐benzylideneanilines with 3,4‐dihydro‐2H‐pyran. The crystal structures reveal the stereochemistry of the pyran ring, which is endo/exo to the quinoline ring system formed in the cycloaddition step. In both structures, the pyran ring adopts a chair conformation, while the nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic ring prefers a half‐chair conformation. The structures differ essentially in the relative orientation of the ring junction H atoms. |