“…Therefore, important research efforts from public organizations (DNDi, 2023b), pharmaceutical companies (Peña et al., 2015) and academic research groups (Cassiano Martinho et al., 2022; Ferreira et al., 2021; Jacques Dit Lapierre et al., 2023; Koovits, Dessoy, Matheeussen, Maes, Caljon, Ferreira, et al., 2020; Lal et al., 2023; McNamara et al., 2022) have been performed over the last decades, in order to identify clinical candidates which might overcome the shortcomings of the current treatments (Chatelain, 2015; Field et al., 2017; Koovits, Dessoy, Matheeussen, Maes, Caljon, Mowbray, et al., 2020). Among the resulting literature from such works, benzothiazole‐containing compounds can be encountered in numerous studies targeting diverse parasites, in which the inclusion of a benzothiazole fragment provides compounds active against Trypanosoma brucei (Berg et al., 2001; Brown et al., 2020; de Oliveira Viana et al., 2019; Linciano et al., 2019), T. cruzi (Berg et al., 2001; Cuevas‐Hernández et al., 2020; Fleau et al., 2019; Martínez‐Cerón et al., 2021), L. infantum (de Oliveira Viana et al., 2019), Plasmodium falciparum (Berg et al., 2001), and Cryptosporidium parvum (Oboh et al., 2023), among others. Thus, we selected as initial hit for this work the acylaminobenzothiazole 1 , of which the antitrypanosomal activity was identified in a primary HTS screening of the NIH compound collection against T. cruzi performed by the Broad Institute (bioassay number AID 1885) (P. B.…”