Ionic liquid-functionalized magnetic nanostructures as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of 6H-chromeno[4,3-b]quinolin-6-ones.

A novel imidazole ionic liquid (IL)-functionalized [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) is prepared by the functionalization of [Formula: see text] by 1-butyl-3-(3-trimethoxypropyl)-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride as the IL moiety. The catalyst is characterized by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscope, vibrating sample magnetometer, dynamic light scattering and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. [Formula: see text] showed good activity in the synthesis of 6H-chromeno[4,3-b]quinolin-6-one derivatives via multicomponent reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarin, anilines and benzaldehydes. The nanocatalyst is magnetically separable and easily recoverable and showed successful activity up to 10 runs.