“…The majority of drugs used against malaria, such as chloroquine (Tanenbaum & Tuffanelli, 1980), mefloquine (Palmer et al, 1993), primaquine (Elslager et al, 1969) and amodiaquine (Ridley, 2002) possess a quinoline ring which has been the mainstay of malaria chemotherapy for much of the past 40 years (Font et al, 1997;Kaminsky & Meltzer, 1968;Musiol et al, 2006;Nakamura et al, 1999;Sloboda et al, 1991;Warshakoon et al, 2006). However, their effectiveness has been seriously eroded in recent years, mainly as a result of the development of parasite resistance (Ridley, 2002).…”