“…Thiazoles and their derivatives form a part of vitamin B 1 and coenzyme carboxylase (Schrauzer and Kohnle, 1964). They represent a very interesting class of compounds because of their wide applications as antimicrobial (Chohan et al, 2003;Vicini et al, 2003), anti-inflammatory , anti-degenerative (Panico et al, 2003) and anti-HIV (Maass et al, 1993) activities. In continuation of our work on thiazole derivatives (Amir and Azam, 2004a) and Schiff bases (Amir and Azam, 2004b) we have synthesized new Schiff bases of naphtha[1,2-d]thiazol-2-amine purposely to combine the lipophilicity of naphthalene moiety to enhance membrane permeability with thiazole ring and azomethine linkage to study their effect on pathogenic strains of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria.…”