“…Oxygen-containing heterocycles are privileged motifs and have attracted immense attention in recent times due to their widespread presence in natural products and biologically active compounds, as well as their increasing importance in the fields of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Therefore, the development of new synthetic methodologies for these oxacyclic frameworks, especially in their chiral forms, is of great interest in organic synthesis . In particular, chiral 1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran, commonly referred to as phthalan, is abundant in bioactive natural products, which display pharmacological properties such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antidepressive, antioxidant, and anti-influenza (Figure ).…”