Summary: | <p>Due to stability issue of isoquinolone’s their <em>N</em>-methylation is a challenging task, achieved the synthesis of <em>N</em>-methylated 2-methylisoquinoline-1,5,8(2H)-trione using readily available precursor 2-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine <em>via</em> multistep strategy, finally oxidation of 5,8-dimethoxy-2-methyl-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-1(2H)-one with ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) lead to target isoquinolone in good yield, further oxidation conditions in final step were optimized using different catalyst ratio, reaction time and temperature conditions.</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17807/orbital.v12i1.1432">http://dx.doi.org/10.17807/orbital.v12i1.143</a></span></p>
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