Our researchers Olesja Koleda and prof. Edgars Suna in collaboration with colleagues from Rostock University, Ruhr-University Bochum and Max-Planck Institute have discovered electrosynthesis of benzoxazoles.
Method is published in Journal of Organic Chemistry (Impact Factor 4.849, 2016):
Synthesis of Benzoxazoles Using Electrochemically Generated Hypervalent Iodine.
This article is also August 25th ACS Editors’ Choice (http://pubs.acs.org/editorschoice/).