Synthesis and Characterization of Some Chlorosubstituted Azoles and their Screening against some Mushroom Crop Pathogens and Study of their Efficacy on Growth of Oyster Mushroom Spp.

Applicability of azoles possessing nitrogen and oxygen atom as a heteroatom are well known in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and industries. One of the fast-growing research areas in the heterocyclic chemistry has been directed towards the synthesis of isoxazoline derivatives; as a structural unit frequently found in natural products and many bioactive molecules. They exhibit various biological activities. Isoxazoline having Imidazole moiety have been reported as an ingredient of various pesticides useful for the control of pest in agriculture arena. Some derivatives exhibit antimicrobial and growth regulatory properties. The farmers in the tropical belt of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra were in the habit of cultivation of mushroom. However, these mushroom growers are worried about susceptibility of their crop towards some plant pathogenic attack. As a result, the amount of yield they have produced has been found incommensurate with their efforts and investment. The greater efficacy of biological properties exhibited by isoxazoline moiety stimulated the research work to develop new synthetic approaches for their synthesis and study their activity. To safeguard the mushroom crop from the pathogenic attack, there arose a need to develop a potent pathogen inhibiter. Thus, with this aim, we attempted to synthesis some nitrogen and oxygen containing chlorosubstituted isoxazolines and studied their efficacy against some mushroom crop affecting pathogens viz . some fungi V. fungicola, G. roseum and some bacteria viz . B. gladioli, P. fluorescene, P. alcaligens, P. stutzeri . Beside this, efficacy of synthesised compounds on development of Pleurotus sajor-caju have been studied.


Introduction
One of the fast-growing research areas in the heterocyclic chemistry has been directed towards the synthesis of isoxazoline derivatives, as a structural unit frequently found in natural products 1 and many bioactive 2,3 molecules.For instance, cycloserine 4 is a naturally occurring antituberculotic and antibiotic agent possessing isoxazoline nuclei.In the chemistry of five membered heterocycles, isoxazoline and their analogues have achieved great importance as being enabled to exhibit various biological activities viz.antibacterial, 5 analgesic, anthelmintic, 6 diuretic, anticonvulsant, 7 anticancer, antitubercular, [8][9] insecticidal, cardiovascular, 10 antidepressant and anti-anxiety 11 activities. The greater efficacy of biological properties exhibited by isoxazoline moiety stimulated the research work to develop new synthetic approaches for their synthesis and study their activities.In addition to above mentioned biological activities, these can act as valuable intermediates for the synthesis of organic molecule.Variety of compounds possessing important functional groups such as β-hydroxynitrile, α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compound, β-hydroxynitrile, 1,3-diamines and 1,3-hydroxycarbonyl compounds were useful for the preparation of these compounds.Jadhav S.B. (2010) 16 reported cyclization of substituted chalcones with hydroxylamine hydrochloride using sodium acetate in DMF which results into the formation of newly substituted 3-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-5-(6''-methoxy-naphthalen)-2-isoxazolines.
An important route for the synthesis of isoxazolines is 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction, wherein nitrile oxides react with alkenes to yield isoxazolines.Alternative alkyl or silyl nitronates 17 also used to achieve the same products.Thus, the reaction of alkyl or silyl nitronate with alkene affords N-alkoxy or N-silyloxyisoxazolidines.Further on heating or on acidic condition it gives isoxazolines.
Base catalysed cyclization of 2-hydroxyacetonaphthanone with substituted vanillin provides chalcone.Further this on treatment with NH 2 OH.
HCl in basic medium using ethanol leading to the formation of corresponding isoxazoline analogues have been reported by Sailu et al.  (2012). 18Similar types of reactions have also been reported by Solankee et al. (2015) 19 with the use of s-triazine based chalcones and NH 2 OH.HCl in the presence of alkali.Literature survey also reveals that chromanones and flavanones are also useful starting materials in the synthesis of isoxazolines.Dhirbassi et al. (2014)  20 carried out reactions of bromo-nitro-substituted flavanones with hydroxylamine -hydrochloride in pyridine containing few drops of piperidine to synthesise 3,5-diaryl-4-aroyl isoxazolines.
From the review of literature, it is revealed that the synthesis of imidazole substituted isoxazolines from 2-aminosubstituted chloro flavonones proved to be useful pathway.Thus, it was thought interesting to carry out the reaction of 2-aminosubstitutedchloroflavonone with NH 2 OH.HCl in 1,4-dioxane/ piperidine solvent mixture and study their impact on phytotic growth of mushroom spp.and also against some pathogens.

Materials and Methods
The materials prepared were characterised using various characteristics techniques.The UV-Vis spectra taken in ethanol solvent.Perkin-Elmer spectrophotometer and Bruker Avance-II 400 NMR spectrophotometer were used for IR spectra and 1 H NMR spectra in CDCl 3 using TMS as an internal standard respectively.

Scheme Antimicrobial Activity
The compounds prepared were tested against mushroom crop pathogens.The result obtained from this study are tabulated in Table 1.Tested compounds when compared with reference compound had been shown good to moderate efficacy against species under studied.viz.Verticillium fungicola, Gliocladium roseum Burkholderia gladioli.Pseudomonas fluorescene, Pseudomonas alcaligens and Pseudomonas stutzeri.

Efficacy of Test Compounds on Growth of Mushroom Spp.
Experimental setup was established at ICAR affiliated Krushi Vidyan Kendra, Durgapur (Badnera) Dist.Amravati under the consultancy of eminent experts.The mushroom spp.Pleurotus sajorcaju was selected for the study.The spawns of experimental species were procured from genuine agricultural agencies and cultivated in the culture house.The experimental setup was divided into two parts ie 'A'-control group plants and 'B'-treated group plants.
Firstly, the substrate soybean straw was chopped into small pieces and keep for 10-14 hours in water tank for soaking purpose.Further soaked substrate was sterilized by treating it with 60-80 o C hot water for an hour.After sterilisation, substrate was cool to lower down the temperature.
Polythene bags (sterilized) were used to prepared uniform size beds.Sterilized soybean straw and spawns treated with the test compounds solution were filled one by one in bags.The beds (packets) closed tightly with threads and made pin-holes around the bag.Likewise, a bag for controlled group (untreated spawns) was filled and labelled.All the packets under study were hanged in cultivation room for incubation at 22-26 o C for mycelium running for 21-28 days.Care has been taken to maintain proper temperature of the incubation room.Within 25-30 days mycelium developed around the bag, polyethene was removed and transfer to growing room, where bets were irrigated as per their need.As soon as, the first primordial initiated, the solution of test compounds were sprayed on it and continued with some intervals.The yields of mushroom crop were collected from each bag was studied with reference to their diameter, length, weight and colour and recorded as shown in table 2
Pleurotus sajor-caju was treated with the solution of test compounds to examine their efficacy on the morphology of treated mushroom species.By considering the morphological characters, comparison have been made between the treated and control species of mushroom, it was noticed that, the mushroom species which was under treatment showed notable growth in caps diameter as well as thickness also increased in stipe length that contributes the enhanced crop production.