Benzimidazole ring anhydrides

N-Condensed benzimidazole ring from dicarboxylic acid anhydrides... 

The compounds referred to as azolides are heterocyclic amides in which the amide nitrogen is part of an azole ring, such as imidazole, pyrazole, triazole, tetrazole, benzimidazole, benzotriazole, and their substituted derivatives. In contrast to normal amides, most of which show particularly low reactivities in such nucleophilic reactions as hydrolysis, alcoholysis, aminolysis, etc., the azolides are characterized by high reactivities in reactions with nucleophiles within the carbonyl group placing these compounds at about the same reactivity level as the corresponding acid chlorides or anhydrides. 11... 

Acetic anhydride-promoted ring-closure reaction of 2-phenylimino-thiazoles 259 and 2-amino-benzoimidazolium salts 261 give the corresponding imidazo[2,l+]thiazolium 260 and imidazo[l,2- ]benzimidazole 262 compounds (Equations 114 and 115) <1997CHE728, 1999PCJ361 >. A similar cyclocondensation was reported for the elaboration of pyrazolo [l,5- ]benzimidazoles <2004RJ0221>. 

Imidazole was converted by hydrogenation over platinum oxide in acetic anhydride to 1,3-diacetylimidazolidine in 80% yield, and benzimidazole similarly to 1,3-diacetylbenzimidazoline in 86% yield [480. While benzimidazole is very resistant to hydrogenation over platinum at 100° and over nickel at 200° and under high pressure, 2-alkyl- or 2-aryl-substituted imidazoles are reduced in the benzene ring rather easily. 2-Methylbenzimidazole was hydrogenated over platinum oxide in acetic acid at 80-90° to 2-methyl-... 

Habib and co-workers observed the rearrangement of 2-quin-oxalinone 4-oxides (219) on treatment with acetic anhydride to 1,3-diacetyl- or l-acetyl-3-acyl-2-benzimidazolones (220).219 Recently, the ring contraction of 2-azidoquinoxaline 1-oxide to 2-cyano-l-hydroxy-benzimidazole has been reported.220... 

Aryl-5,6-dihydrobenzo[4,5]imidazo[l,2-C]-quinazolines Isatoic anhydride could also be reacted with amino-, hydroxyl- or thiolanilines to form 2-(2-aminophenyl)benz-imidazoles, oxazoles or thiazoles, Scheme 5.38. In the case of 2-(2-aminophenyl)benzimidazoles (X=N), the product was formed after 3 min at 150°C in acetic acid. The products could subsequently be further elaborated 6-aryl-5,6-dihydrobenzo[4,5]imidazo[l,2-C]quinazolines, a four ring system, was formed by treatment of the 2-(2-aminophenyl) benzimidazole (X=N) with different aldehydes in acetic acid at 150°C for 5 min (J. Westman, and K. Orrling, Personal Chemistry, Uppsala, Sweden, unpublished results). Fifteen compounds were synthesised in 20-75% overall yield. This 3 + 5 min procedure should be compared to the conventional heating protocol developed by Devi and co-workers57, where each reaction step was run overnight to eventually afford the products in only 30-50% yield. 

Still another indication of the 1,4-anhydro ring in anhydro-n-xylo-benzimidazole (XX) is its conversion by two hours boiling with acetic anhydride to the same 2-(2-furyl)benzimidazole (XXVI) that is obtained by the direct condensation of o-phenylenediamine (XVIII) with 2-furoic acid (XXVII). 

The (l-methylimidazol-2-yl)thioglycolic acid 52 can be converted into the ring-fused mesoionic system 53 by reaction with acetic anhydride (Scheme 33) <1979JOC3803>. The thioether 54 with ethanolic sodium ethoxide gives the 3-benzylthiazolo[3,2- ]benzimidazole 55 (Scheme 34). 

The structures of all currently approved gastric acid secretion inhibitors that act as inhibitors of the sodium-potassium pump consists of variously substituted pyiidylsulfonyl-benzimidazoles. A structurally very distinct compound based on a pyrimidine moiety has much the same activity as the benzimidazole-based drugs. In yet another convergent synthesis, reaction of (3-phenethylamine (53) with acetic anhydride affords amide 54. Treatment with polyphosphoric acid (PPA) then leads to ring closure to form the dihydroisoquinoline (55). Sodium borohydride then reduces the enamine function to afford fragment 56. 

The aromaticity of the imidazole nucleus ensures stability towards reduction, and when benzimidazole (27) is hydrogenated over Adams catalyst in acetic acid the carbocyclic ring is reduced first to give the tetrahydrobenzimidazole (28). However, if the solvent is changed to acetic anhydride, A(-acylation promotes the reduction of the heterocycle and the 1,3-diacetylbenzimidazoline (29) is then formed (Scheme 1). Imidazole (30) under these conditions gives 1,3-diacetylimidazoline (31). Imidazolium salts (32) are easily reduced and treatment with excess sodium borohydride in 95% aqueous ethanol culminates in the formation of 1,2-diamines, (33) or (34). Either N—C bond may cleave, although if the substituent R is benzyl the major products are benzylamines (33 R = Bn). ... 

A side-chain methylenamino group reacts with a nitroso group (introduced in situ) when the compound is heated with mineral acid [2466]. An unusual reaction occurred when the nitro-t-amine (103.4) was refluxed with acetic anhydride and zinc chloride the course of this reaction may involve an A -oxide [2039]. When an o-nitroalkylamine is heated with ethoxide, the two functions are converted into a 1-hydroxyimidazole ring [3004]. Nitrosation of the pyrim-idinone (103.5) involves several steps including a Fischer-Hepp rearrangement of an iV-nitroso to a ring-C-nitroso the final product is a 6-(4 -nitrophenyl-amino)purin-2-one [2667]. In a weakly basic medium, the nitroamine (103.6) is cyclized to either the benzimidazole (when R == H), or the benzimidazolone (when R H). 

The classical synthesis of IPs consisted in cyclization of o-DAP with carboxylic acids, their derivatives and precursors. This method was used to prepare the majority of IP derivatives with various substituents in the imidazole and pyridine rings. However, it should be mentioned that cyclization of o-diaminopyridines with carboxylic acids and their derivatives occurs less readily than that of o-phenylenedia-mines. Whereas the latter are cyclized into benzimidazoles when heated with carboxylic acid for a short time (51CRV397), boiling a 2,3-DAP and an acetic anhydride mixture for 2h affords only 2,3-diacetylaminopyridine, and fusion of this diamine with benzoic anhydride resulted only in the formation of 2,3-dibenzoyl-aminopyridine (64JOC3403). 

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