“…Identification of mammalian metabolites of quinoline 1 and their role in its mutagenicity and tumorigenicity, has been of interest for more than 40 years (Hollstein et al, 1978;Tada et al, 1980Tada et al, , 1982LaVoie et al, 1983;Agarwal et al, 1986Agarwal et al, , 1990Willems et al, 1992;Saeki et al, 1993;Reigh et al, 1996;Suzuki et al, 2000;Dowers et al, 2004;Hakura et al, 2007;Diaz Duran et al, 2015;Matsumoto et al, 2018). Several quinoline arene oxides, e.g., 20 and 27, were initially postulated as possible liver microsomal metabolites of quinoline 1 (Hollstein et al, 1978;Tada et al, 1980Tada et al, , 1982LaVoie et al, 1983), before 5,6-arene oxide 20 was finally confirmed as a major metabolite (Figure 8) (Agarwal et al, 1986).…”