A series of novel 2-hydroxyphenyl substituted aminoacetamides was designed by molecular hybridization of the aminoacetamide scaffold and 2-hydroxyphenyl motif. The target compounds were synthesized and their fungicidal activities were evaluated. Some of the target compounds showed excellent antifungal activities against S. sclerotiorum and P. capsici. Significantly, compounds 5e displayed the most
Synthesis of novel N-aryl-N′-(2-hydroxybenzyl)ethylenediamine derivatives by reduction of N-arylaminoacetamides is presented in this paper. Fungicidal activity of the products is tested, and one of those exhibits 94.1% inhibitory activity against Gibberella zeae at the concentration of 50 μg/mL. The fungicidal activity of the compounds was enhanced with the increase of their log P.