“…The wide area of application of biguanides involves the field of medical research (Sirtori & Pasik, 1994;Clement & Girreser, 1999), especially in the treatment of diabetes mellitus (N,N-dimethylbiguanide and N-phenylethylbiguanide) (Thompson et al, 1999;Ross et al, 2004;Woo et al, 1999). Biguanide derivatives are also used in the synthesis of antimalarial drugs (N-butylbiguanide) (Watkins et al, 1987), and in therapeutic treatment of pain, anxiety, memory disorders (Morain et al, 1994) and hypoglycaemic activity (Marchi et al, 1999;Sirtori & Pasik, 1994;Shapiro et al, 1959aShapiro et al, , 1959b.…”