“…1 Their wide variety of applications in medicinal chemistry can be illustrated by their use as pharmaceutical agents in fields such as CNS disorders (e.g., granisetron), 2 anti-inflammatory (e.g., bendazac and benzydamine) 2,3 and antimicrobial agents, 4 anti-HIV protease inhibition, 5 anti-tumour 6 and nitric oxide synthase inhibitors 7,8 and binding affinity of non-steroidal progesterone receptor. 9 Structural modifications of the anti-inflammatory agent bendazac have been carried out and, in some cases, the synthesised compounds showed analgesic effects along with anti-inflammatory properties. 10 There are several methods for the synthesis of indazoles; 1,11 most of them start from benzene derivatives, where the pyrazole ring is formed by ring closure.…”