“…The 2-amino-3-cyano-4H-chromene MX58151 (2) with a *Manuscript Click here to view linked References M a n u s c r i p t 2 3-bromo-4,5-dimethoxyphenyl substituent at the 4-position was considered as a potential agent with multiple action modes against the breast cancer cell line T47D, the lung cancer cell line H1299 and the colorectal cancer cell line DLD-1, and it might have an advantage for the treatment of the drug-resistant cancers as it retains activity in tumor cells resistant towards current antimitotic agents, taxanes (including Taxol and Taxotere), and Vinca alkaloids [3]. Some methods of synthesis of 2-amino-4H-chromenes have already been reported, such as the chemical one pot synthesis of 2-amino-4H-chromenes [5][6][7][8][9], methods resulting in good yields [10][11][12][13] and quite short reaction times [14][15][16][17]. Generally, 2-amino-4H-chromenes are synthesized by multi-component reactions involving in Knoevenagel condensation of salicylic aldehydes with active methylene followed by a intramolecular cyclization step, and have employed organic bases, ionic liquids or organic small molecules as catalysts [10,18,19].…”