Indoline is an aromatic heterocyclic organic compound with the chemical formula C8H9N. The compound is based on the indole structure, but the 2-3 bond is saturated. Indoles and their derivatives continue to inspire the development of synthetic organic chemistry even years after their discovery. The specific scaffold is a privileged structure and is ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and biologically active compounds. Fused indolines as indole derivatives are of particular interest as they are often found in natural products and bioactives such as strychnine and tryptanthrins (alkaloids), mitosanes and mitosenes (antitumor activity) and isatisine (antiviral activity).
The molecular structure of cyclobutane has four carbon atoms, and its four carbon atoms are not in the same plane, which is the folded conformation of cyclobutane. Cyclobutane itself is not of commercial or biological interest, but more complex derivatives are important in biology and biotechnology. Currently, nine FDA-approved drugs contain the cyclobutane structure. From the perspective of therapeutic areas, cyclobutyl drugs are mainly distributed in popular areas such as tumors, neurological diseases, infectious diseases, endocrine and metabolic diseases.