posted on 2014-01-03, 00:00authored byQing Su, Pei Li, Mina He, Qiaolin Wu, Ling Ye, Ying Mu
A concise
and efficient method for the synthesis of a wide range
of acridine derivatives and polycyclic aza-aromatic compounds from
a ZnCl2-promoted cyclization reaction of readily available o-arylaminophenyl Schiff base compounds under convenient
conditions was developed. Reaction conditions and scope of the new
method were examined in detail.