Quinoxalines, also known as benzopyrazines, are heterocyclic compounds containing a ring complex consisting of a benzene ring and a pyrazine ring. It has isomerism with other naphthalene compounds such as quinazoline, phthalazine, cinnamine, etc. Fusion N-heterocyclic compounds are widely used as valuable entities for the expansion of important pharmacological agents and are considered to be an advantageous scaffold material. Among the numerous fused N-heterocyclic compounds, cinnoline, quinoxaline and quinazoline are important pharmacological agents. In medicinal chemistry, these N-heterocyclic compounds have a wide range of biological properties and can be used as synthetic intermediates, potential drug candidates and chemical probes.
Thiazolines are a group of isomeric five-membered heterocyclic compounds containing both sulfur and nitrogen. Thiazoline exists in three isomeric forms namely 2-thiazoline, 3-thiazoline and 4-thiazoline. Oxazolines, oxazoles, thiazolines, and thiazoles form the characteristic heterocyclic building blocks of lissoclinum peptide alkaloids.