“…Other synthetic methods includes treatment of phosphoranes with NaH/CH 3 CN 20 , pyrolysis of Schiff bases derived from 3-amino-1,2,3-triazineone in paraffin oil at 300 0 C 21 . The most general method for synthesis of these compounds involves cyclocondensation of anthranilamides with aldehydes in the presence of various promoting agents, such as p-toluenesulfonic acid/DDQ 22 , I 2 /KI in water 23 , CuCl 2 in ethanol 24 , DDQ/DMF 25 , Sc(oTf) 3 26 , NaHSO 3 27 , SnCl 4 In continuation of our interest in finding environmentally benign method for the synthesis of various heterocyclic compounds [37][38][39][40][41][42] , here in we want to report for first time, a new and efficient synthesis of 4(3H)-quinazolinones in the presence ofZn[(L)-proline] 2 as a lewis acid catalyst under solvent-free conditions (Scheme 1).…”