Abstract
Aromatic aldehyde N‐acylhydrazones were oxidized into 2,5‐disubstituted 1,3,4‐oxadiazoles with bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene in CHCl3 or DMSO at room temperature in good to excellent yields.
Acknowledgments
I acknowledge support from an Outstanding Young Scholarship (No. 30125043) from the National Science Foudation of China, the Basic Research Project (No. 2002CCA01500) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the Hebei University of Science and Technology.