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SUBMITTER: Barasa L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9088178 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
RSC advances 20181019 62
Benzimidazole is a privileged, and routinely used pharmacophore in the drug discovery process. Herein, we report a mild, acid-free and one-pot synthesis of indole, alkyl and alpha-amino benzimidazoles through a novel HBTU-promoted methodology. An extensive library of indole-carboxylic acids, alkyl carboxylic acids and <i>N</i>-protected alpha-amino acids has been converted into the corresponding benzimidazoles in 80-99% yield. Since alpha-aminobenzimidazoles are highly useful synthons as chiral ...[more]