“…They have been in clinical use since 1968 (Connor, 1998) and are known to represent a class of medicinally important compounds which are extensively used as antibacterial agents (Chohan et al, 2010). Sulfonamides possess many types of biological activities and many of them are widely used in therapeutic medicine as analgesic (Zebardast et al, 2009), antimicrobial (Ozbek et al, 2007), anticancer (Lopez et al, 2010), antileishmanial (Bhattacharya et al, 2002), antitumor (Alqasoumi et al, 2010), antidiabetic (Berredjem et al, 2015), antioxidant (Saeedi et al, 2014), anticonvulsant (Kiran et al, 2009), anti-HIV (Al-Soud et al, 2008) antihypertensive (Bhagwat et al, 2014), anti-inflammatory (Chowdhury et al, 2009), antimalarial (Miller et al, 2002), antitubercular (Papadopoulou et al, 2014), antiviral, antiplatelet aggregation (Wang et al, 2003), diuretic (Supuran and Scozzafava, 2000) and anti-carbonic anhydrase (Bertucci et al, 2009;Eroglu, 2008) activities among others. Pak.…”