“…Azoles scaffolds have been associated with biological activities such as antitumor, antihypertensive, anti-histaminic, and antimicrobial activities ( Figure 1 ) ( Aiello et al., 2008 ; Boyer et al., 2011 ; Daletos et al., 2014 ; He et al., 2017 ; Johnson et al., 2008 ; Ko et al., 2001 ; Leventhal et al., 2006 ; Mishra et al., 2019 ; Oksuzoglu et al., 2008 ; Sun et al., 2004 ; Wang et al., 2014 ). The synthesis of benzoxazoles has been studied extensively via different pathways, including (a) cyclization of 2-aminophenols with β -diketones ( Mayo et al., 2014 ; Miao et al., 2019 ), carboxylic acids ( Dev et al., 2016 ; Yuan et al., 2018 ), aldehydes ( Layek et al., 2020 ; Matloubi Moghaddam et al., 2006 ; Sirgamalla et al., 2020 ), acyl chloride ( Tian et al., 2019 ; Zheng et al., 2019 ), isocyanides ( Akbay et al., 2003 ), alcohols ( Doan et al., 2019 ; Kaldhi et al., 2019 ), (b) oxidative intramolecular C–O coupling, (c) C–H arylation reaction, and (d) oxidative cyclization of phenolic Schiff base ( Chang et al., 2002 ). However, the condensation and aromatization of o -aminophenol was the most popular method for the synthesis of benzoxazoles.…”