“…A number of thiazole derivatives are widely used as corrosion inhibitors with high efficiency for metal protection in industry. Research interest of several experimental and theoretical works in literature dedicated to this organic compound category, such as 1,3-thiazolidin-5-one derivatives [8], amino derivatives of 1,3-thiazole [7], 2-amino-4-(p-tolyl)-thiazole, 2-methoxy-1,3-thiazole and thiazole-4-carboxaldehyde [18], 2-aminothiazole [19], 2-amino-4-methyl-thiazole [20], 2-mercaptothiazoline [21], 2-aminothiazole derivatives [22], and other types of thiazole derivatives [23], etc. Whereas, to the best of our knowledge, there is no theoretical as well as experimental backgrounds have been systematically proposed to evaluate the corrosion inhibition performance of four compounds including 2-acetyl-thiazole (ATZ), 2-isobutylthiazole (ISTZ), 4-methyl-5-(2-hydroxyethyl)-thiazole (SFR) and 2,4,5-trimethyl-thiazole (TMTZ) (Fig.…”