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Green Synthesis of Privileged Benzimidazole Scaffolds using Active Deep Eutectic Solvent

Maria Luisa Di Gioia
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Roberta Cassano
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Paola Costanzo
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Natividad Herrera Cano
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Loredana Maiuolo
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Monica Nardi
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Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta
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Manuela Oliverio
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Antonio Procopio
Version 1 : Received: 19 July 2019 / Approved: 22 July 2019 / Online: 22 July 2019 (07:35:15 CEST)

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Di Gioia, M.L.; Cassano, R.; Costanzo, P.; Herrera Cano, N.; Maiuolo, L.; Nardi, M.; Nicoletta, F.P.; Oliverio, M.; Procopio, A. Green Synthesis of Privileged Benzimidazole Scaffolds Using Active Deep Eutectic Solvent. Molecules 2019, 24, 2885. Di Gioia, M.L.; Cassano, R.; Costanzo, P.; Herrera Cano, N.; Maiuolo, L.; Nardi, M.; Nicoletta, F.P.; Oliverio, M.; Procopio, A. Green Synthesis of Privileged Benzimidazole Scaffolds Using Active Deep Eutectic Solvent. Molecules 2019, 24, 2885.

Abstract

The exploitation and use of alternative synthetic methods, in the face of classical procedures that do not conform to the ethics of Green Chemistry, represent an ever present problem in pharmaceutical industry. The procedures for the synthesis of benzimidazoles have become a focus in synthetic organic chemistry, as they are building blocks of strong interest for the development of compounds with pharmacological activity. Various benzimidazole derivatives exhibit important activities such as antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and analgesic and some of the already synthesized compounds have found very strong application in medicine praxis. Here we report a selective and sustainable method for the synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted or 2-substituted benzimidazoles, starting from o-phenylenediamine in the presence of different aldehydes. The use of deep eutectic solvent (DES) both as reaction medium and reagent without any external solvent provides advantages in terms of yields as well as in the work up procedure of the reaction.

Keywords

benzimidazoles; deep eutectic solvents; green chemistry; aromatic amines; heterocyclic moiety

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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