Synthesis of substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline-4-carboxylic acids

Reduction of some substituted quinoline-4-carboxylic acids was studied. The reduction of 2-alkylquinoline-4-carboxylic acids with Raney nickel in aqueous alkali was stereoselective, and the resulting 2-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline-4-carboxylic acids were individual cis isomers. Original Russian Text ? Yu.A. Zhuravleva, A.V. Zimichev, M.N. Zemtsova, Yu.N. Klimochkin, 2009, published in Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 622–625.