Helvetica Chimica Acta

Synthesis of Benzimidazoles by Phosphine??Mediated Reductive Cyclisation of ortho??Nitro??anilides

J Duchek, A Vasella

Index: Duchek, Jan; Vasella, Andrea Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2011 , vol. 94, # 6 p. 977 - 986

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Abstract

Abstract Heating ortho-nitro-anilides 1–3 and 2-methyl-N-(3-nitropyridin-2-yl) propanamide (5) with 4 equiv. of a phosphine led to the 2-substituted benzimidazoles 6–8 and to the imidazo [4, 5-b] pyridine 10, respectively, in yields between 45 and 85%. Heating 1 with