quinoline derivatives have been used as antimalarial, anti-inflammatory agents, antiasthmatic, antibacterial, antihyper- tensive and tyrokinase PDGF-RTK inhibiting agents.2,3 Further- more, poly-substituted quinolines have been found to undergo hierarchical self-assembly into a variety of nano- and mesostruc- tures with enhanced electronic and photonic functions.4 In view of these points, a great deal of effort has been drawn to develop new and efficient synthetic routes to quinoline