“…They have a wide range of applications including non-linear optical effects (Patil & Dharmaprakash, 2008) in fluorescent materials (Jung et al, 2008) and have biological activities such as antibacterial (Liu et al, 2011), anti-inflammatory (Lee et al, 2006), antileishmanial (Boeck et al, 2006), cytotoxic (Saydam et al, 2003), anti-oxidant (Cheng et al, 2008), HIV-1 protease inhibitory (Tewtrakul et al, 2003) as well as anti-tyrosinase activities (Nerya et al, 2004). The various interesting applications of chalcones lead us to synthesize the title chalcone derivative in order to study its tyrosinase inhibitory activity and also to compare its properies with the previously published related compounds (Suwunwong et al, 2009;Fun et al, 2010). Our experiment shows that (I) exhibits tyrosinase inhibitory activity with the IC 50 value of 0.075 ± 0.000 mg ml -1 .…”