“…The series of substituted monoamides Ia of succinic acid (with X = Alk, MeOCH 2 , HOCO(CH 2 ) 5 , Ar, Het), their salts, and the corresponding esters and diamides XIIa (Y = OAlk, NHAr) (Scheme 5) contains compounds possessing antimicrobial [69, 75, 77, 80 -83], antiviral [61,64], antitumor [62], hypo-and hyperglycemic [41, 57, 68 -70, 73, 83 -94], hemostatic [54], hypertensive [69 -71, 79, 83, 87, 88, 91, 95 -103], antiinflammatory [41,43,57,58,60,62,75,84,104,105], analgesic [60,63,104], antihypoxant [41,57,106], biligenic, antioxidant, and hepatoprotector [41,57,84] properties at a low toxicity [41,43,60,63,73,84,104,107] (see Table 1). …”