In t
he present investigation, t
he first construction of a s
eries of structurally new 2-f
errocenoyl-substituted iodobenzofurans hybrids has been achieved through a simple and mild two-step procedure, involving t
he erm4">iodination of salicylaldehydes using
er" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="jhet2625-eo-2000">erm1 TH_term3">N-iodosuccinimide reagent in eco-friendly PEG-400 medium at room temp
erature followed by one-pot Rap–Sto
erm
er reaction with 1-chloroacetylf
errocene in refluxing MeCN with t
he presence of K
2CO
3 as base and PEG-400 as t
he activated additive. T
hese newly synt
hesized compounds belong to a new class of f
errocene-benzofuran hybrids and could be good candidates for t
he development of compounds for use in medicinal c
hemistry.