“…The synthesis of compounds containing 1,3,4-thiadiazoles has attracted widespread attention due to their diverse applications as antifungals (Jalilian et al, 2003;Liu et al, 2009), anticancer agents (Wei et al, 2009;Ibrahim, 2009;Zheng et al, 2008;Matysiak and Opolski, 2006), antibacterial agents (Demirbas et al, 2009;Padmavathi et al, 2009;Pintilie et al, 2007), antiinflammatory drugs (Jadhav et al, 2008;Rostom et al, 2009), antidepressants (Yusuf et al, 2008;Jatav et al, 2008), carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (Kasımo ulları et al, 2009;Abdel-Hamid et al, 2007), anti-Helicobacter pylori agents (Mirzaei et al, 2008), antitrypanosomals (Carvalho et al, 2004) and leishmanicidal agents (Foroumadi et al, 2005). In the present study we report the synthesis of novel 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives with alkyl heterocyclic or heterocyclic moieties.…”