Phenanthridine was first discovered by Ame Pictet and H. J. Ankersmit in 1891 by pyrolysis of the condensed product of benzaldehyde and aniline. Earlier, phenanathridine and related compounds were prepared using mainly Pictect-Hurbert and modified Morgan-Walls type of condensation reactions. Because of great importance of these compounds in biology and medicine, shorter and high yielding synthetic methodologies are of great interest in synthetic organic chemistry as isolation from natural sources described is less than 1%.