Investigation of novel monopodal and dipodal oxy-Schiff base triazine from cyanuric chloride: Structural and antimicrobial studies

ABSTRACT

During the last few years, the potential of s-triazine derivatives in agrochemical and medicinal properties have been subjected to investigation. s-Triazine derivatives have received great attention due to their significant antimicrobial, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-HIV, anticancer, and a wide array of other biological activities. The present study reported a method for achieving Dipodal systems formed by reaction 2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, 2-aminophenol. Herein, we reported the synthesis of a dialdehyde and its Schiff base as a new template. The reaction of cyanuric chloride with 1 equiv. methanol and 2 equiv. of p-hydroxybenzaldehyde gave the desired dialdehyde. The dialdehyde was then reacted with 2-aminophenolto afford the corresponding multidirectional oxy-Schiff base triazines. The structures of the compounds were identified by FT-IR,¹H-NMR and elemental analysis. Their antimicrobial activities were performed by using the broth microdilution method in DMSO: Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS) against eight bacteria strain and one yeast strain. The results of the test were compared with gentamicin. It has been determined that 2,4-Bis(2-hydroxyphenylimino-4'-formylphenoxy)-6-methoxy-1,3,5-triazine (3) (2DP2AF) and 2-(2-hydroxyphenylimino-4'-formylphenoxy)-4-(4'-formylphenoxy)-6-methoxy-1,3,5-triazine (2) (1DP2AF) have significant antibacterial and antifungal activity against Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans and these effects were close to the control antibiotic used. Ent. faecalis was the most sensitive strain against both two tested chemicals. It was determined that our chemicals have similar antifungal capacity when compared to gentamicin.

KEYWORDS:

• Cyanuric chloride
• s-triazine
• Schiff bases
• antimicrobial activity
• broth microdilution