“…Some of them are of limited synthetic scope due to low yields, long reaction times, and the need for a large amount of catalyst, specialized solvents (Tokes & Szilagyi, 1987;Tokes et al, 1992), or microwave activation (Kumar et al, 2004;Gordon, 2001;Olivier-Bourbigou & Magna, 2002). As part of our continuingeffort toward the development of new methods for the synthesis of biologically relevant heterocyclic compounds (Benzerka et al, 2012(Benzerka et al, , 2013Hayour et al, 2011), we have, recently, developed a procedure using butylmethylimidazolium(bmim).BF4 as a green solvent to provide an efficient and convenient protocol for the synthesis of 2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-ones from 2′-aminochalcones without the requirement for an additional catalyst (Chelghoum et al, 2012). We wish to describe herein the synthesis and singlecrystal X-ray structure of 2-p-tolyl-2,3-dihydroquinolin-4(1H)-one (I).…”