Tetrazole compounds. 9. A new approach to tetrazolyl-substituted quinoline derivatives

The acid-catalyzed reaction of 1-aryl-5-(2-dimethylaminovinyl)-1H-tetrazoles 2 with arylamines suitably functionalized in the ortho-position resulted in Z-configurated transamination products which were cyclized to novel 3-tetrazolylquinolines by the action of sodium ethoxide. Thus, on reacting 2 with 2-aminoacetophenone or 2-aminobenzophenone, respectively, the 2-[2-(1-aryl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)vinyl-amino]aryl ketones 3a-g were obtained, the cyclization of which gave 4-substituted 3-(1-aryl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)quinolines 4 . In the case of the transamination products 3h-1 , prepared from 2 and methyl anthranilate, the ring closure afforded 3-(1-aryl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-1H-quinolin-4-ones 5 . Starting from 2 and anthranilonitrile 4-amino-3-(1-aryl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)quinolines 10 were obtained via the corresponding intermediates 9 .