Abstract A simple and highly efficient method for synthesis of benzoxazoles, benzimidazoles, and oxazolo [4, 5-b] pyridines is described. Condensation of orthoesters with o-substituted anilines or 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine was performed in the presence of catalytic amounts of commercially available, inexpensive, and moisture-stable 1, 3-dibromo- 5, 5-dimethylhydantoin under solvent-free conditions. The corresponding heterocycles ...
[Selvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Annadhasan, Mari; Velmurugan, Rengasamy; Swaminathan, Meenakshisundaram Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2010 , vol. 83, # 7 p. 831 - 837]