Supporting file Green approach: An efficient synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted-1,3-thiazoles and selenazoles in aqueous medium under ultrasonic irradiation Ramesh Gondru · Janardhan Banothu · Rajitha Bavantula* Cavitations effect Cavitation is a physical phenomenon that creates localized hot spots in a reaction liquid core by the fast growth and implosions of micro-reactors like bubbles, that generates transient high temperatures and pressures and also leads to the formation of highly reactive radical intermediates at the localized hot spots. This rapid oscillation of formation, expansion and implosion of bubbles occurs beyond a certain threshold of pressure and constitutes acoustic cavitations. Such cavitations induce the reaction rapidly by accelerating the mixing of the reactants between two different phases by diffusion process at interfacial region in heterogeneous reactions. Generally ultrasounds generate the temperature in a reaction medium, which facilitates the acceleration of reaction. But beyond the optimum level, utilization efficiency of ultrasound considerably decreases due to the generation of large cavities with low oscillating energy and heavy crowding of active bubbles in a small space scatters the sound waves and lowers the focusing energy on the reaction vessel. Thus the yield of the product formation increases in shorter reaction times. Spectra IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 4c 1 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 4c H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 10a 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 10b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 10c 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 10c IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 12a IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 12b 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 12b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 12c IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 13a 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 13a IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 13b 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 13b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 13c IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 14a 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 14a IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 14b 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 14b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 14c 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 14c IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 15a 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 15a IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 15b 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 15b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 15c 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 15c IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 16a 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 16a IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 16b 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 16b IR (KBr) spectrum of compound 16c 1 H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) spectrum of compound 16c