“…These clinical success in parallel gave an impetus to the synthetic chemists to design innovative strategies for the economic, ecofriendly and rapid synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazole chemical libraries to accelerate the drug discovery process 32 , 33 . In the past 40 years, 1,2,4-oxadiazole scaffold has been extensively investigated for diverse biological activities 34 including anti-inflammatory 35 , 36 , analgesic 37 , anaesthetic 38 , anthelmintic 39 , antiallergic 40 , anti-Alzheimer 41 , antibacterial 42 , 43 , anticancer 44–46 , anticonvulsant 47 , 48 , antidepressant 49 , antifungal 50 , anti-HIV 51 , antiparasitic 52 , antiplatelet and antithrombotic 53 , anti-tubercular 54 , antitussive 55 , antiviral 56 , 57 , insecticidal 58 , monoamine oxidase inhibition 59 , muscarinic receptor agonists 60 , selective G-protein bile acid receptor 1 (GPBAR1) agonists 61 and selective H 3 receptor antagonists 62 activities.…”