Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of 2‐(4‐(benzo[d]thiazol‐5‐ylsulfonyl)piperazine‐1‐yl)‐N‐substituted acetamide derivatives

A new series of 2‐(4‐(benzo[d]thiazol‐5‐ylsulfonyl)piperazin‐1‐yl)‐N‐substituted acetamide (5a‐5k) compounds have been synthesized, and these compounds were characterized with spectral data like IR, NMR, and Mass spectroscopy. All compounds were evaluated in vitro for their efficacy as antimicrobial against Gram‐positive and Gram‐negative pathogenic bacterial strains such as Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa using ciprofloxacin as a standard and fungal strains like Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus as compared with standard drug Clotrimazole, and Molecular docking study shows that all these compounds were having good to excellent correlation binding energy as compared with binding energy of standard drugs.