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A simple two-step access to diversely substituted imidazo[4,5-b]pyridines and benzimidazoles from readily available 2-imidazolines
Mujumdar, Prashant,Grkovic, Tanja,Krasavin, Mikhail
, p. 3336 - 3340 (2013/07/05)
We discovered a facile rearrangement of N-(hetero)aryl 2-imidazolines into diversely substituted imidazo[4,5-b]pyridines and benzimidazoles, under Bechamp reduction conditions. Combined with the earlier reported protocol for Pd-catalyzed (hetero)arylation of 2-imidazolines, it provides a simple two-step access to a range of compounds based on these medicinally important heterocyclic cores.