“…Continuing our interest in the development of tandem reactions triggered by copper catalysis, we envisaged to develop a tandem O-arylation–oxidative coupling process. To test this hypothesis, we have selected 2,4-dihydro-3 H -pyrazol-3-ones 1 and 2-haloaryl aldehydes 2 as coupling partners that would eventually lead to the synthesis of chromone fused pyrazoles, chromeno[2,3- c ]pyrazol-4(1 H )-ones 3 (Figure , iii). , Indeed, this kind of chromone fused pyrazole has shown important biological activities such as selective (A 2A or A 1 ) adenosine receptor antagonist . It should be mentioned that the chromone fused pyrazoles have been prepared using a multistep synthesis associated with harsh reaction conditions, use of excess amounts of reagents/oxidants, prolonged reaction times, and with the outcome of low overall yields ,,, (for example, see Figure , iv).…”