Keywords: 4-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid, amidation, intramolecular cyclization.We have previously proposed the preparation of 4-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxamides and this has been introduced satisfactorily into the synthesis of N-alkyl-[2], arylalkyl- [3], and aryl-[4] substituted derivatives. There are differences in some details of carrying out the experiment but a common feature is shared, i.e. all are based on the initial separation of the corresponding quinoline-3-carboxylic acid. In most cases such a course was justified even though the method of activating the carbonyl carbon atom of the carboxyl group in the starting quinoline-3-carboxylic acid has to be modified each time based on the properties of the starting amine.One of the reported methods can evidently also be used for synthesis of 4-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid hetarylamides 1. It should immediately be noted, however, that when 2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid chlorides react with azahetarylamines they frequently form stable N-acylhetarylamine salts rather than the amides [5]. For this reason we have not studied the "acid chloride" variant in this work. The use here of 4-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid imidazolide (2) as the acylating agent appears more promising and, in fact, shows fully satisfactory results (method A, Table 1). None the less it has been noted before [4] that the imidazolide 2 is unusually unreactive and thus needs the use of high boiling solvents and in some cases has led to serious complications. Hence, for example, with acylation of the thermally unstable 2-amino-5-isobutyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole under these conditions the corresponding hetarylamide 1n could be obtained, but due to the low reaction rate it proved to be so strongly charged with gray-brown colored degradation products of the free amine that purification of the final product proved impossible even