“…As a part of our ongoing research that aims at developing simple and efficient synthetic techniques for the synthesis of novel heterocyclic compounds with potential anticancer applications, [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] the present study reported the synthesis of numerous new substituted 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives incorporating benzene moiety. N-(5-Amino-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl) benzamide (2) was synthesized as a sole product through reaction of benzoylisothiocyanate with thiosemicarbzide in dry acetonitrile and then underwent cyclization according to the previously published methodology [32][33][34][35][36] (Scheme 1). Treatment of compound 2 with ethyl cyanoacetate in the presence of a catalytic amount of triethylamine afforded N-(5-(2-cyanoacetamido)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)benzamide (3) in a high yield, which was used as a key starting material (Scheme 1).…”