An alternative method for the synthesis of acetamidobenzimidazoles (3-6) has been developed, including the reacylation of methylbenzimidazol-2-ylcarbamate (carbendazim, MBC, 1) under the action of aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids. It was shown that with an increase in the size of the alkyl group and the reaction temperature (in the case of butyric acid), due to the decomposition of the resulting product, the yield of the target acyl products sharply decreases. The obtained compounds are homologues of the anthelmintic drug -N-(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl) acetamide (2acetylaminobenzimidazole, 3). A possible mechanism of reacylation is presented.
The title compound, C20H19N3O, was obtained by condensation of 2,3-dihydro-1H,9H-pyrrolo[2,1-b]quinazolin-9-one (alkaloid deoxyvasicinone, isolated from Peganum Harmala) with 4-(dimethylamino)benzaldehyde in the presence of sodium methoxide. The 2,3-dihydro-1H,9H-pyrrolo[2,1-b]quinazolin-9-one part of the molecule is roughly planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0178 Å) and is essentially coplanar with the benzilidene ring (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0080 Å), forming a dihedral angle of 5.0 (1)°. The crystal structure is stabilized by two aromatic π–π stacking interactions observed between the benzene rings of neighboring molecules [centroid–centroid distance = 3.7555 (19) Å.
The molecular structure of the title compound, C11H9BrN2O, is almost planar. The benzene and pyrimidine rings are essentially coplanar, with r.m.s. deviations of 0.0130 Å, and the largest displacement is for the flap atom of the dihydropyrrole moiety [0.154 (7) Å]. Hirshfeld surface analyses revealed that the crystal packing is dominated by H...H, Br...H/H...Br and O...H/H...O interactions, and Br...Br interactions in the crystal structure are also observed. Theoretical calculations using density functional theory (DFT) with the B3LYP functional basis set gave numerical parameters for the frontier molecular orbitals.
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