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Efficient and facile catalytic protocols for chlorination and ligand-directed ortho-acetoxylation of 2-arylbenzoxazoles have been developed. The chlorination is not a ligand-directed ortho-functionalization, but an electrophilic substitution process in the benzo ring of the benzoxazole moiety. Meanwhile, the acetoxylation exhibited high regioselectivity for the substrates containing a meta-substituent and occurred at the less sterically hindered ortho-C–H bond of the directing group.

Graphical abstract: Chlorination and ortho-acetoxylation of 2-arylbenzoxazoles

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