2019
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02090
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Cobalt-Catalyzed Sustainable Synthesis of Benzimidazoles by Redox-Economical Coupling of o-Nitroanilines and Alcohols

Abstract: This study reveals cobalt-catalyzed sustainable synthesis of benzimidazoles by redox-economical coupling of onitroanilines and alcohols. The major advantage of this report is the use of a commercially available cheap cobalt catalyst to produce a wide variety of 2-substituted benzimidazoles by hydrogen autotransfer without using any additional external redox reagent and costly ligand system. A thorough mechanistic insight of the reaction is proposed by performing a series of control experiments.

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“…Several groups, namely Huang and co-workers, 74 Nguyen, Al-Mourabit and co-worker, 75 Han and co-workers, 76 De Sarkar and co-workers, 77 and Hong and co-workers, 78 developed methods for the synthesis of 2-(het)arylbenzimidazoles from 2-nitroanilines 41 and aryl-56 and hetarylmethanols 57 using catalysts such as dppf , 74 Na 75 Pd(dppf)Cl 2 , 76 Co(acac) 2 , 77 tricarbonyl(η 4 -cyclopentadienone)iron(0) complex 78 (Table 5). It is assumed that these tandem reactions proceed through alcohol oxidation, reduction of the nitro group, condensation, and dehydrogenation.…”
Section: Review Synthesismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several groups, namely Huang and co-workers, 74 Nguyen, Al-Mourabit and co-worker, 75 Han and co-workers, 76 De Sarkar and co-workers, 77 and Hong and co-workers, 78 developed methods for the synthesis of 2-(het)arylbenzimidazoles from 2-nitroanilines 41 and aryl-56 and hetarylmethanols 57 using catalysts such as dppf , 74 Na 75 Pd(dppf)Cl 2 , 76 Co(acac) 2 , 77 tricarbonyl(η 4 -cyclopentadienone)iron(0) complex 78 (Table 5). It is assumed that these tandem reactions proceed through alcohol oxidation, reduction of the nitro group, condensation, and dehydrogenation.…”
Section: Review Synthesismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the basis of these preliminary studies and previous reports, [23,24,25,26] a plausible pathway for the cobalt mediated formation of 2 a is proposed in Scheme 4. Firstly, a free radical NO 2* was generated from Co(NO 3 ) 2 under thermal conditions [22] which reacts with 1 to produce intermediate (A).…”
Section: Communications Ascwiley-vchdementioning
confidence: 56%
“…Based on the above-described results as well as the related processes, [36] a possible reaction mechanism is shown in Scheme 5. The overall mechanism can be divided into threeparts: (1) vicinal diols dehydrogenation to methylglyoxal; (2) reduction of o-nitroamine to o-phenylenediamine; (3) at last, the desired product 3 a was obtained by imidization and cyclization reaction (Scheme 5).…”
Section: Scheme 3 Synthesis Of Imine and Benzoimidazolementioning
confidence: 98%