Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Hydrazones from Nontraditional oils

Hydrazones possessing an azometine -NHN=CH- proton constitute an important class of compounds for new drug development. Therefore, many researchers have synthesized these compounds as target structures and evaluated their biological activities. These observations have been aimed for the development of new hydrazones that possess varied biological activities. In line with these observations, some new hydrazones were synthesized from hydrazides of neem, karanja and rice bran oils with a view to impart value addition to these non traditional oils. These newly synthesized compounds were characterized on the basis of elemental analysis and evaluated for biological properties. Certain hydrazones exhibited reasonable antibacterial and antifungal activities when compared with standards.