“…The following chemicals were used as obtained from their commercial suppliers: l-menthone, phenol, 4-bromophenol, 4-chlorophenol, 4-tert-butylphenol, 4-phenoxyphenol (TCI, Philadelphia, PA, USA). 4-R-phenoxyacetic acid hydrazides 2a-2e were not obtained commercially and had been synthesized according to the procedure found in the literature [10]. The structure of the compound obtained was established by 1 H-NMR spectroscopy on an AVANCE DRX 500 (500 MHz) instrument (Bruker, Davis, CA, USA) and by 13 C-NMR spectroscopy on Varian-Mercury 400 spectrometer (Varian Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA) using DMSO-d 6 as a solvent and TMS as an internal standard.…”