A convenient approach to 1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinoline carboxylates by electro-oxidative formation of enamine moiety

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)87056-3

A practical synthetic approach to the drugs of current interest, 1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-quinoline-3-carboxylic acids, has been accomplished through the electro-oxidative formation of double bond adjacent to the nitrogen atom. The efficiency was shown by the in