Synthesis, Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Structure of Some Semicarbazides with Potential Antibacterial Activity

A series of 1,4-disubstituted semicarbazide and 4,4'-bis[1-substituted semicarbazide]diphenylmethane derivatives were synthesized to explore their antibacterial activity. New compounds were characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopic data. In order to find the tautomeric equilibrium for the molecules energy calculations for each possible tautomeric form of model compound 2, and for the most antibacterially active compound 7 in the investigated series, were calculated for the gas phase at the RHF/SCF/6-31G** level of theory.