Strategies and Synthetic Methods Directed Toward the Preparation of Libraries of Substituted Isoquinolines

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Strategies for the production of substituted isoquinoline libraries were developed and explored. Routes involving microwave-assisted variants of the Bischler−Napieralski or Pictet−Spengler reaction allowed for cyclization of substituted β-arylethylamine derivatives. The dihydroisoquinolines and tetrahydroisoquinolines thus generated could then be oxidized to their corresponding isoquinoline analogues. An alternate strategy, however, involving the preparation and activation of isoquinolin-1(2H)-ones is demonstrated to be a more practical, rapid, and efficient route to C1- and C4-substituted isoquinoline libraries.

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