This compound can be prepared by two related ways: 1) The reaction of 2-nitrobenzoic acid (I) with PCl5 at 50 C gives the corresponding acyl chloride (II), which by a Friedel-Craft's condensation with benzene and AlCl3 yields 2-nitrobenzophenone (III). The reduction of (III) with H2 over Pd/C in ethanol affords 2-aminobenzophenone (IV), which is acylated with acetic anhydride sodium acetate to give 2-acetamidobenzophenone (V). The cyclization of (V) by means of sodium methoxide in refluxing ethanol yields 4-phenylquinoline-2(1H)-one (VI), which by reaction with SOCl2-DMF in hot CHCl3 is converted to 2-chloro-4-phenylquinoline (VII). Finally, this compound is condensed with N-ethylpiperazine (VIII) at 130 C. 2) Quinoline (VII) is condensed with piperazine (IX) as before to give 4-phenyl-2-(1-piperazinyl)quinoline (X), which is finally alkylated with ethyl iodide and sodium carbonate in refluxing butanone.