Design, synthesis, anti-TMV, fungicidal, and insecticidal activity evaluation of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid derivatives based on virus inhibitors of plant sources

By drawing the creation ideas of botanical pesticides, a series of tetrahydro-β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid derivatives were designed and synthesized, and first evaluated for their anti-TMV, fungicidal and insecticidal activities. Most of these derivatives exhibited good antiviral activity against TMV both in vitro and in vivo. Especially, the activities of compounds 8 and 15 in vivo were higher than that of ribavirin. The compound 8 exhibited more than 70% fungicidal activities against Cercospora arachidicola Hori, Alternaria solani, Bipolaris maydis, and Rhizoctonia solani at 50 mg/kg, compounds 16 and 20 exhibited more than 60% insecticidal activities against Mythimna separate and Ostrinia nubilalis.

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