“…Besides its wellknown antibiotic activity, this ring system exhibits a wide range of activities, attracting the attention of researchers (Chimento et al, 2013;Jaishree et al, 2012;Bhati and Kumar, 2008;Halve et al, 2007). Moreover, s-triazine derivatives have gained great therapeutic importance in the field of medicinal chemistry since they display a fascinating array of pharmacological properties, such as antimicrobial (Patel et al, 2013b), antifungal (Saleh et al, 2010), antibacterial (Patel et al, 2012), anticancer (Kumar et al, 2013), anti-HIV (Chen et al, 2012), anti-inflammatory (Shanmugakala et al, 2014), antimalarial (Ojha et al, 2011), etc. In our continuous effort toward synthesis of bioactive s-triazine derivatives (Patel et al, 2014b), we report the synthesis of various benzonitrile/nicotinonitrile and azetidin-2-one incorporated s-triazine compounds by applying an efficient Pd-catalyzed C-C Suzuki coupling using catalyst system Pd(OAC) 2 , Xphos (2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2 0 ,4 0 ,6 0 -triisopropylbiphenyl), and K 3 PO 4 as a base in toluene solvent. The antimicrobial activity of synthesized compounds has been carried out against two Gram-positive bacteria, three Gram-negative bacteria, and two fungal species.…”