Chemical design and toxicity evaluation of new pyrimidothienotetrahydroisoquinolines as potential insecticidal agents

Abstract

Neonicotinoids are the most widely used from all existing pesticides. So, in purpose to discover new pesticides being more effective against the aphid, twelve heterocyclic compounds neonicotinoid analogs have been prepared in a pure state; pyrimidothienotetrahydroisoquinolines 1–12 and their toxicity as potential insecticidal agents against cowpea Aphid, Aphis craccivora Koch was screened. Their characterizations by using spectroscopic analyses were performed. The toxicity data exhibited that the 8-chloropyrimidine compound 4 is more toxic about 2-fold than a reference insecticide, acetamiprid. The other screened compounds showed weak to strong toxicological activities against cowpea aphid. Keywords: Pyrimidothienotetrahydroisoquinolines, Acetamiprid, Cowpea Aphid, Toxicity, Structure-activity relationships (SAR)