“…The syntheses of racemic quinoline arene oxides (20, 25), trans-dihydrodiols (21, 26), syn-and anti-arene dioxides (28 and 29), and trans-diol epoxides (30 and 31), were previously reported (Agarwal et al, 1986;Boyd et al, 1989Boyd et al, , 1994Bushman et al, 1989;Willems et al, 1992) (Figures 8, 10). These chiral compounds, along with achiral metabolites including N-oxide 24 and phenols 4, 5, 22, and 23, were tested for mutagenicity, using the Ames/Salmonella microsomes method (Willems et al, 1992;Suzuki et al, 2000).…”