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SUBMITTER: Abou-Elkhair RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5761664 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abou-Elkhair Reham A I RA Hassan Abdalla E A AE Boykin David W DW Wilson W David WD
Organic letters 20160908 18
Trimethylsilyl-transient protection successfully allowed the use of lithium hexamethyldisilazane to prepare benzimidazole (BI) and 4-azabenzimidazole (azaBI) amidines from nitriles in 58-88% yields. This strategy offers a much better choice to prepare BI/azaBI amidines than the lengthy, low-yielding Pinner reaction. Synthesis of aza/benzimidazole rings from aromatic diamines and aldehydes was affected in dimethyl sulfoxide in 10-15 min, while known procedures require long time and purification. ...[more]