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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Jul 7;53(34):8824–8838. doi: 10.1002/anie.201403110

Scheme 34.

Scheme 34

Synthesis of benzimidazoles, benzoxazoles and benzothiazoles via oxidative coupling of aromatic alcohols with ortho-amino anilines, phenols, and thiophenols, reported by Lu.[64]