“…1,4-Benzothiazine and its derivatives have attracted intense interest in recent years because of their diverse pharmacological properties (Akkurt, Ö ztü rk Yıldırım et al, 2005;Akkurt, Tü rktekin et al, 2005;Wang et al, 2005;Aravindan et al, 2003); some of these compounds exhibit antimicrobial (Habib et al, 1997;Sastry et al, 1990;Rao et al, 1982Rao et al, , 1983, antibacterial (Desai & Mehta, 1997;Miky et al, 1997), antifungal (Chaffman & Brogden, 1985), anti-oxidant (Vladimirov et al, 1991), antiviral (Ergen et al, 1996), anti-HIV-1 (Invidiata et al, 1996) and antihypertensive activities (Kando & Hashimoto, 1993;Keita et al, 2000).…”