“…Among these compounds, spiroisoxazolines have shown strong bioactivities (Bennani et al, 2007;Al Houari et al, 2008;Hwang et al, 2005). For many years, our laboratory has accumulated much experience in the design and synthesis of heterocyclic systems with isoxazoline and pyrazoline rings through 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and cyclocondensation reactions (El Yazidi et al, 2003;Bakhouch et al, 2014Bakhouch et al, , 2015Bakhouch et al, , 2017Mahfoud et al, 2015). In a continuation of our previous work, and in an attempt to evaluate the reactivity of thioaurones with nitrile oxides as a dipole (Boughaleb et al, 2011), we describe herein the reaction of (Z)-2-benzylidenbenzo[b]thiophen-3(2H)-one with benzonitrile oxide in chloroform at low temperature.…”