Studies on Antimicrobial Oligomeric Surface Active Agents. II.

Surfactants - Surface Active Agents

The definition for a detergent is a cleaning agent. The main cleaning agent used in earlier days was soap. This term means a compound formed from the reaction of a fatty acid with a base such as caustic soda, forming the sodium soap of the acid. The more commonly used cleaning agent in this day and age is the synthetic detergent (SYNDET) which is a formulation such as TIDE or FAB. The essential...

Silicone Surface-Active Agents

Novel Zinc(II) Complexes of Heterocyclic Ligands as Antimicrobial Agents: Synthesis, Characterisation, and Antimicrobial Studies

The synthesis and antimicrobial activity of novel Zn(II) metal complexes derived from three novel heterocyclic Schiff base ligands 8-[(Z)-{[3-(N-methylamino)propyl]imino}methyl]-7-hydroxy-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one, 2-[(E)-{[4-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)phenyl]imino}methyl]phenol, and (4S)-4-{4-[(E)-(2-hydroxybenzylidene)amino]benzyl}-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one have been described. These Schiff base...

Studies on the Effect of Synthetic Surface-active Materials on Bacterial Growth. II.

In a previous communication (Katz and Lipsitz, 1935), the effect of a certain synthetic surface-active material on the growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis was discussed; this work has now been extended to include three more compounds, varying in chemical structure. These materials possess substantially the same properties as the alkylated naphthalene sulfonate originally employed, i.e., remarkabl...

Review on Antimicrobial Agents

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