Protein kinase CK2 inhibitors, polyhalogenated benzimidazoles, have been studied experimentally in solid state by NMR-NQR double resonance and X-ray and theoretically by the density functional theory (DFT). Six resonance frequencies on (14)N have been detected and assigned to particular nitrogen sites in each polyhalogenated benzimidazole molecule. The effects of prototropic annular tautomerism and polymorphism related to stable cluster formation due to intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions on the (14)N NQR parameters have been analyzed within the DFT and AIM (atoms in molecules) formalism. The studies suggest that all polyhalogenobenzimidazoles are isostructural and can exhibit polymorphism and that (14)N NQR is very sensitive to hydrogen bondings but less sensitive to the specific arrangement of the hydrogen bonded molecules. NQDR and DFT results suggest the presence of the prototropic annular tautomerism 50:50, which is in a good agreement with the X-ray and (1)H NMR data.
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