Synthesis and alkylation of 3-cyano-4-isobutyl-5-oxo-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydroquinoline-2-thiol

By reaction of isovaleric aldehyde with cyanothioacetamide and cyclohexane-1,3-dione, 3-cyano-4-isobutyl-5-oxo-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydroquinoline-1-thiol has been obtained, and subsequently used in synthesis of the corresponding substituted 2-alkylthiohexahydroquinolines.Lugansk T. G. Shevchenko State Pedagogical Institute, Lugansk 348011, Ukraine. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117913, Russia. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 230–231, February, 1999.