Fungicidal Activities of Cu (II) Soaps Derived From Various Oils Treated at High Temperature for Biomedical Use

Biologically potent compounds are one of the most important classes of materials for the upcoming generations. Increasing number of microbial infectious diseases and resistant pathogens create a demand and urgency to develop novel, potent, safe and improved variety of antimicrobial agents. This initiates a task for current chemistry to synthesize compounds that show promising activity as therapeutic agents with lower toxicity. Therefore, a substantial research is needed for their discovery and improvement. The antifungal activities of copper soaps derived from various oils treated at high temperatures have been evaluated by testing against Alternaria alternata and Aspergillus niger at different concentrations by agar plate technique and it is found that these Cu (II) soaps are very effective on these. The fungi toxicity results indicate that the strain of fungal species are susceptible towards these soaps and suggests that with the increase in concentration of copper soap it may increase further.