Chemistry of Quinolines and their Agrochemical Potential

Abstract

Abstract: Human population is increasing at an alarming rate which indirectly imposes pressure on agriculture and food supply. However, crop production is reduced by pathogenic infections which have engrossed the attention of chemists and agriculturists to develop newer agrochemicals with improved characteristics. Quinoline, one of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound act as a privileged scaffold in the designing of highly efficient drugs due to their chemical and biological diversity. It has gained significant attention for several years due to its broad spectrum of biological activities such as anti-malarial, anti-microbial, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-plasmodial, and anti-protozoal etc. The depiction of varied biological activities of quinoline impelled us to outlook the progress of synthesis and agrochemical potential of numerous quinoline derivatives with well-known and typical examples from 2015 to 2021. The review focuses on the advancement in the synthesis of quinoline derivatives and their agrochemical potential. This review revealed that abundant work has been done in order to synthesize quinoline derivatives and were evaluated for their agrochemical potential using different methods. The information given in this article may be helpful to the researchers to analyze the already reported studies and explore new compounds for the development of efficient agrochemicals.