Potential Antimycobacterial Agents : Part III. Condensation Products of Diphenylamine-2-Carboxylic acid Hydrazides with Aldehydes and Ketones and Their Evaluation as Antibacterials

Chemistry Dept., University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

Manuscript received 20 February 1975 ; revised 2 June 1975 ; accepted 24 June 1975.

Diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid hydrazides, synthesised by the hydrazinolysis of methyl diphenylamine-2-carboxylates have been condensed with aromatic aldehydes, ketones and α-­isonitrosopropiophenone. Some of the compounds possessed 'significant' antibacterial activity.