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Dowtherm (50 mL) was added to a 100 mL two-necked round-bottomed flask and heated to 250 °C in a sand bath. Maintaining this temperature, diethyl {[(3-bromophenyl)amino]methylene}malonate (Intermediate 32, 10.0 g, 29.2 mmol) was added to the reaction system and the reaction was continued at 250 °C for 1 hour. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and a white solid was collected by filtration and dried to give ethyl 7-bromo-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate 6.0 g in 69.3% yield. The product was characterized by 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6): δ 1.07 (t, 3H), 1.22 (s, 12H), 3.16 (q, 2H), 7.29 (m, 1H), 7.31 (d, 2H), 7.61 (s, 1H), 7.88 (s, 1H), 8.31 (s, 1H), 8.65 (s, 1H), and 9.44 (s, 1H).