“…There are more than 100 Lewis acids catalysts that have been reported to promote the condensation of 2-aminothiophenols 22 with aldehydes 23, exemplified in Table 2 with 2-aminothiophenol and benzaldehyde, such as I 2 , 22 (Cu(II)-glycerol/MCM-41, 23 TiO 2 /Al 2 O 3 , 24 YCl 3 , 25 ZnO, 26 Fe-Cl 3 , 27 etc. [28][29][30][31][32][33][34] For instance, in 2019, Tan and co-workers developed a novel catalytic route for the synthesis of 2-arylbenzothiazoles 24 via condensation of 2-aminothiophenols 22 with aldehydes 23 via I 2 /di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP) promoted one-pot tandem cyclization and oxidation sequence (Table 2, entry 1). 22 In 2019, Ding, Luo and co-workers group also reported a base-promoted one-pot process for the synthesis of bioactive 2-[2-(difluoromethoxy)aryl]benzothiazole derivatives.…”