Abstract One-pot syntheses of 5-hydroxy-2-(phenyl or styryl) chromones and the corresponding 6-and 8-monoiodo-and 6, 8-diiodochromones have been developed. The procedures involve oxidative cyclization of 2′-benzyloxy-6′-hydroxychalcones and 2′- benzyloxy-6′-hydroxy-2-cinnamylideneacetophenones and electrophilic substitution processes on the chromone moieties; such procedures were also applied to the syntheses ...