The anticancer activity of gallic acid compounds has been invented, in order to obtain new potent and cost effective molecule using in vitro cytotoxicity assay. The invention particularly relates to the gallic acid based new molecules i.e. 2-benzyl indanones represented by structure 1, possessing anticancer activity against human cancer cell lines. The compound also exhibited tubulin polymerisation inhibition. 2-(3,4-methylenedioxybenzyl)-3-(3",4",5"-trimethoxyphenyl)-indanone- 1 (2), possessing molecular formulae as C29H30O9 was synthesized from gallic acid, exhibits potent in-vivo anticancer activity. Compound 2 was evaluated for acute oral activity in Swiss albino mice and it was found to be well tolerated by the experimental animals up to 300mg/kg body weight. (Formula 1, Formula 2).
