Synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation and QSAR studies of 2-hydroxy propanoic acid derivatives
A Bansal1, P Kumar1, B Narasimhan1
1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.
Abstract:
A series of 2-hydroxypropanoic acid derivatives (1-26) was synthesized and characterized by physicochemical and spectral means. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial potential and the results indicated that compounds 5 and 12 were found to be the most potent antimicrobial agents having pMICam values 1.67 and 1.64 µM/ml respectively. QSAR studies indicated the importance of topological parameter, Kier's valance second order molecular connectivity index (2χv) in describing the antimicrobial activities of synthesized 2-hydroxypropanoic acid derivatives.
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