“…Chalcones are natural biocides (Geiger & Conn, 1945;Marian et al, 1947) and are well known intermediates in the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds exhibiting various biological activities (Srivastava et al, 1997;Kuhn & Hensel, 1953). Chalcones and their derivatives possess some interesting biological properties such as antibacterial (Ishida et al, 1960), antifungal (Mehata et al, 1978, insecticidal (Mudaliar & Joshi, 1995), anesthetic (Hosni & Saad, 1995), anti inflammatory, analgesic and ulcerogenic activities.…”