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Acetic anhydride mediated condensation of aromatic o-diacid dichlorides with benzimidazoles to provide electro-reducible p-dione adducts
Joyce, Eamonn,Kavanagh, Paul,Leech, Dónal,Karpinska, Jolanta,McArdle, Patrick,Aldabbagh, Fawaz
, p. 3788 - 3791 (2012/09/10)
Acetic anhydride mediates a facile and rapid condensation of benzimidazole with aromatic o-diacid dichlorides to precipitate p-dione adducts in excellent yields. Condensation with pyridine-3,4-dicarbonyl dichloride produced a 1:1 mixture of isomeric p-diones. The X-ray crystal structure of one of the latter isomers revealed unusual high density, and inter-layer separation similar to graphite. Cyclic voltammetry demonstrated that p-dione is capable of two consecutive one-electron-reductions with formal potentials influenced by the fused (hetero)aromatic and substituent effects.