Nany of the compounds which have been synthesized in this Laboratory because of possible interest as antimalarial agents have included the benzoquinoline nucleus as part of the structure. 2 The syntheses of a number of similar compounds which are based on the naphth [1, 2] imidazole nucleus (I) have been studied and are reported in the
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