Table of contents 1 General Methods and Experimental Procedures S2 2 Analytical Data S4 3 Copies of 1 H and 13 C NMR Spectra S11 4 References S49 S2 1. General Methods and Experimental Procedures All of the reagents and solvents are commercially available and were used as purchased without any further purification. Some solvents except laboratory reagent grade were dried and purified, when necessary. Reactions were monitored by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) on pre-coated silica gel plates procured from Merck (silica gel 60, F 254, 0.25mm). Products were purified by column chromatography using 100-200 mesh silica gel and eluting with a hexane/ethyl acetate mixture. Melting points of the synthesized compounds were determined in E-Z melting point apparatus and are uncorrected. Mass spectra were recorded using Waters mass spectrometer. NMR (1 H & 13 C) spectra were recorded in Chloroform-d (CDCl 3) using Bruker-Avance II (400, 100 MHz) spectrometer and chemical shift are given in δ ppm units with respect to TMS as an internal standard. The proton multiplicities were mentioned as: s = singlet, d = doublet, t = triplet, q = quartet, dd = doublet of doublet and m = multiplet. Infrared spectra were recorded on Shimadzu IR Prestige-21 FT-IR spectrophotometer. Required diaryliodonium salts were synthesized using reported protocol. 1-3 S3 General procedure for the synthesis of 4-methyl-2-aryloxyquinoline (6). A mixture of 4 quinolone (0.62 mmol), diaryliodonium salt (0.62 mmol) and potassium carbonate (260 mg, 1.88 mmol) in toluene (1 mL) was irradiated in a CEM Discover MW reactor (100 W power) at 100 °C for 5 min. Upon completion of the reaction as indicated by TLC, solvent was removed and the residue was taken into dichloromethane (20 mL). To this solution, 20 mL of water was added and allowed to stir at room temperature for 10 min. The organic phase was separated, washed with brine solution (2 × 15 mL), dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 and concentrated in vaccuo. The crude product thus obtained was purified through a silica gel (100-200) column chromatography to afford pure 4-methyl-2-aryloxyquinolines 6 in 62-81% yields. 4-Methyl-2-phenoxyquinoline (6a): Off white solid (119 mg, 81%); mp.: 76-77 °C (lit. 4 mp.: