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A facile and efficient synthesis of substituted quinolin-2(1H)-ones is developed via intramolecular cyclization of penta-2,4-dienamides mediated by concentrated H2SO4 (98%), and a mechanism involving the formation of a dicationic superelectrophile, and subsequent intramolecular nucleophilic cyclization reactions is proposed.