The reactions of 1-substituted isoquinolinium salts have been studied in the cases of the 1-isopropyl-2-methyl-and 2-methyl-1-cyclohexylisoquinolinium iodides using an alcoholic solution of sodium hydroxide. The possibility of preparing a wide range of spirocyclic ketones, alcohols, amino alcohols, and isochroman-3-ones has been demonstrated.It has previously been shown in our laboratory that rearrangement of quaternary isoquinolinium salts with a methine group at position 1 occurs with an alcoholic alkylamine solution [1]. This recyclization gave a low yield of -amino--tetralones since the principal route for the reaction is an N-desalkylation to give the starting isoquinoline. It might be expected that exchange of the N-nucleophile for an O-nucleophile would lead to a lower yield of side reaction products.The 1-isopropyl-2-methyl-(1a) and 1-cyclohexyl-2-methyl-isoquinolinium (1b) iodides were prepared by quaternization of the corresponding isoquinolines by methyl iodide, sealed in an ampoule with an alcoholic solution of sodium hydroxide, and heated for 18-20 h at 150ºC. Analysis of the reaction mixtures by NMR spectroscopy showed that the reaction results in a mixture of complex composition. In the initial separation of the reaction products it was extracted with an acid medium and then with base.In the case of the 1-isopropyl-2-methylisoquinolinium iodide (1a), extraction of the reaction mixture at pH below 7 gave the 2,2-dimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalin-1-ol (2a) [2][3][4] and the 1-isopropyl-1,4-dihydro-(3H)isochroman-3-one (3a) [4]. Extraction from the basic medium gave the 2,2-dimethyl-3-methylamino-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalin-1-ol (4a). When a cyclohexyl substituent was present at position 1 of the starting salt 1b there were obtained the compounds with a spirocyclic structure 2b, 4b and an isochromanone with a cyclohexyl group at position 1 (compound 3b).With a shorter heating time (8 h) the amino alcohols 4a,b were not observed and there were separated from the basic medium the 2,2-dimethyl-3-methylamino-3,4-dihydronaphthalin-1(2H)-one (5a) and the 3'-(methylamino)-3',4'-dihydro-1'H-spiro(cyclohexane-1,2'-naphthalin)-1'-one (5b), previously reported as the reaction products of salts 1a,b with an alcoholic methylamine solution [1].