“…Among them, dehydroabietic acid (DHA, 1 ) is one of the major tricyclic diterpenoid constituents of pine resin and can be readily obtained from commercial disproportionated rosin. DHA and its derivatives have exhibited a broad spectrum of biological activities such as antimicrobial, antitumor, antiviral, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and gastroprotective activities [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ], which indicate that the compound is a potentially useful starting material for the synthesis of industrially or pharmacologically important products. In view of these findings, it would be worthwhile to design, synthesize new derivatives of DHA bearing N -acylhydrazone moiety and evaluate their potential antimicrobial activities.…”