“…In the course of our on-going screening program for new and selective antifungal compounds, we have previously reported several series of antifungal compounds obtained from natural and synthetic sources [4,5,6,7,8,9]. Considering that some phthalazine derivatives, including some polybrominated compounds [10], 4-benzyl substituted ones [11] and others [12,13,14,15] have been evaluated for their antimicrobial and particularly antifungal activities against yeasts ( Candida and Cryptococcus strains) and Aspergillus spp., we have prepared a series of twenty five differently substituted phthalazin-1-ones to evaluate their antifungal activities against a panel of representative clinically important fungal species. Then, taking into account the antifungal results, conformational and electronic studies on the most interesting compound of the series were carried out.…”