1. Plural of oxazole; a class of five-membered aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing one oxygen atom and one nitrogen atom in the ring, widely used in organic chemistry and pharmaceutical synthesis.
Usage: chemistry; technical; plural form

Examples

• Oxazoles are important building blocks in the synthesis of many pharmaceutical compounds.
• The chemist studied the reactivity of substituted oxazoles in the laboratory.
• Several oxazoles have been developed as potential antimicrobial agents.
• The structure of oxazoles makes them useful in organic synthesis.
• Researchers discovered that certain oxazoles exhibit promising biological activity.