4-(4-Aminophenoxy)-7-(benzyloxy)-6-cyanoquinoline (7.776 g, 21.2 mmol) was dissolved in a toluene (400 ml) and acetonitrile (200 ml) mixed solvent, and then 4-fluorophenyl isocyanate (3.68 ml, 31.7 mmol) was added and the mixture was heated to reflux at 120° C. for 1 hour. The reaction solution was concentrated under reduced pressure, the residue was suspended in tetrahydrofuran (150 ml), and then hexane (150 ml) was added, sonication was performed, and the precipitated crystals were filtered out and dried under reduced pressure to obtain N-(4-(7-(benzyloxy)-6-cyano-4-quinolyl)oxyphenyl)-N′-(4-fluorophenyl)urea (9.81 g, 19.4 mmol, 91.9%) as light brown crystals. These were dissolved in trifluoroacetic acid (100 ml) and thioanisole (9.13 ml, 77.7 mmol) under a nitrogen atmosphere, and the solution was stirred at 60° C. for 12 hours. The reaction solution was concentrated under reduced pressure, and after adding tetrahydrofuran (50 ml) and then 1N aqueous sodium hydroxide (150 ml) and water (150 ml) to the residue, the mixture was stirred and the precipitated crystals were filtered out and washed with water, diethyl ether and ethyl acetate and dried at 70° C. to obtain the title compound (3.646 g, 8.36 mmol, 43.0%) as yellow crystals. negative ESI-MS 413 (M−Na)−
