“…This importance is reflected by the large number of marketed drugs containing the thiazole group, such as the anticonvulsant riluzole, the antiparkinsonian talipexole, the antibacterial sulfathiazole, the antiviral ritonavir [9], and the novel drug substances being developed as the large conductance calcium-activated potassium channel openers for overactive bladder indications [11]. In addition, the thiazole ring has also been widely used in the synthesis of natural products [12], polymers [13], fluorescent dyes [14], and insecticides [15]. Like other conjugated fivemembered heterocycles (such as furans, thiophenes, pyrroles, indoles, oxazoles, and imidazoles), thiazoles can undergo photo-oxygenation involving singlet oxygen ( 1 g ) under photoirradiation in solution [16] and in the solid state [17].…”