“…While a number of naturally occurring derivatives have been released, early reports revealed hybrid compounds that are derived from an isoprene unit and quinolones, namely hemiterpenoids [ 35 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ]. Selected recent examples are presented in Figure 1 C. Besides biological applications, 2-quinoline scaffolds are found in functional organic materials ( Figure 1 D) [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ]. Due to the intrinsic photoactive physical properties of the conjugated system and N , O -based ligating ability, 2-quinolones could be utilized as cationic metal–sensors [ 45 , 46 , 47 ], luminescent materials [ 44 ], and fluorescent small molecule pH probes [ 45 ].…”