Quinoline has been found to possess antimalarial, anti-bacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, cardiotonic, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic activity.
How is quinoline useful to us?
They are used in human and veterinary medicine to treat bacterial infections, as well as in animal husbandry. Nearly all quinolone antibiotics in use are fluoroquinolones, which contain a fluorine atom in their chemical structure and are effective against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.
What is the point group of quinoline *?
Quinoline . The quinoline molecule has C s group symmetry, and all of its vibrations are "k/x// correspondingly divided into the A' in-plane and A" out-of-plane types.