Up to this time various multi component reactions have been widely used in synthetic organic chemistry, including the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds [1,2]. Such reactions include the three component condensation of aromatic amines with aldehydes and CH-acids and were the basis of novel methodology developed by us for the synthesis of polycondensed nitrogen containing heterocycles of the aza-and diazaphenanthrene series [3][4][5][6], which are of promise as light sensitive materials, luminophores, and bioactive material with a broad range of action [7][8][9].With the object of preparing novel 4,7-phenanthrolines we have studied in this work the condensation of 6-quinolylamine 1 with the substituted benzaldehydes 2a,b and the cyclic β-diketones 1,3-cyclohexanedione 3a and 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione (dimedone) 3b.The reactions were carried out by heating an equimolar mixture of reagents in n-butanol. Thanks to the high reactivity of the β-dicarbonyl compound its reaction with the amine and aldehyde in alcoholic medium occurs in the absence of a catalyst, the role of which is fulfilled by the proton of the dissociated enol form of the β-diketone. On the basis of previous investigations [4, 5] we proposed that the final products of the cascade of heterocyclization are the 8-aryl-7,8,9,10,11,12-hexahydrobenzo[a][4,7]phenanthrolin-11-ones A, these being formed via reaction of the 6-quinolylamine 1 with arylaldehydes with separation of the Schiff bases 5a,b, addition of a molecule of 1,3-diketone to the C=N bond of the azomethine, and the following cyclocondensation of the product B. However, on the basis of the 1 H NMR spectroscopic data (Table 1) we have shown that the reaction results selectively in the structures formed (which are isomeric with A) and these are the 12-aryl-8,9,10,12-tetrahydro-7H-benzo[b] [4,7]phenanthrolin-11-ones 4a,b. __________________________________________________________________________________________