“…The most commonly used method for the synthesis of aurones involves the aldol condensation of benzofuran-3(2H)-ones with aromatic aldehyde. This reaction can be carried out by using alumina (Varma and Varma, 1992;Loser et al, 2004;Morimoto et al, 2007), HCl (Feuerstein and Kostanecki, 1898), EDDA (Manjulatha et al, 2012), and deep eutectic solvent (Hawkins and Handy, 2013). However, considering the importance of aurones, we devised a simple, green, and economically viable method for their synthesis.…”