Patent ID: 8580752

Claim:
A pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of one or more aromatic substituted pentadienoic acid amide compounds of general formula 1a-c including geometrical isomers and/or salts thereof wherein R represents normal or branched chain C1 to C10 alkyl group and R 1 , R 2 and R 3 independently are the substituents representing hydrogen atom or methoxyl or hydroxyl or halogen or nitro group or where R 2 and R 3 together (R 2 +R 3 ) represent —OCH 2 O— or —OCH 2 CH 2 O— radical or —CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 O— or —CH 2 CH 2 C(CH 3 ) 2 O— radical; where R 4 substituent is defined as hydrogen atom or methoxyl group; where at least one of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 is not hydrogen; where R 5 represents hydrogen atom or normal or branched chain C1 to C8 alkyl group or phenyl or benzyl radical and R 6 is hydrogen atom or C1 to C8 normal or branched chain alkyl group; or where NR 5 R 6 together (R 5 +R 6 ) represent an amino acid radical or a heterocyclic amine radical; and where dotted lines indicate the presence of double and/or single bonds; along with an anti-infective drug and optionally along with a carrier or diluent or pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.