Zakharova, N. A. published the artcileImidazole derivatives. X. Acylation of 2-hydroxymethylbenzimidazole and the products of its methylation, Quality Control of 7467-35-8, the publication is Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii (1953), 1225-30, database is CAplus.
cf. ibid. 957-63. Acylation of 2-(hydroxymethyl)benzimidazole (I) occurs primarily at the HO group and only later does the formation of diacyl derivatives take place, where the 2nd acyl group is bound to the hetero-N atom. The N-Me compounds yield only monoacyl derivatives at the HO group. Hydrolysis of 2-(chloromethyl)benzimidazole gave 65-73.6% I. I (5 g.), 5.6 ml. MeI, and 5 ml. MeOH heated in sealed tube 5 hrs. at 70-90° gave 6.35 g. solid 1-methyl-2-hydroxymethylbenzimidazole-HI and 1-methyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)benzimidazole methiodide. Treated with cold aqueous NH4OH and extraction of the residue with dry C6H6 left behind 1.3 g. 1-methyl-2-hydroxymethylbenzimidazole methiodide (IA), m. 187-8° (from absolute EtOH). The solution after evaporation was treated with aqueous NH4OH and C6H6 to obtain addnl. amounts IA (total yield 20.35%). The C6H6 extracts gave 20.1% 1-methyl-2-hydroxymethylbenzimidazole, m. 146-7° (from C6H6); HCl salt, m. 189-90°; HI salt, solid without definite m.p. Methylation of I at 150° gave 1,2-dimethylbenzimidazole methiodide, m. 258-9°, which is also obtained from 2-methylbenzimidazole under similar conditions. I (7 g.) heated on a steam bath with 9.45 ml. Ac2O and 10 ml. AcOH 30-40 min. gave 98.7% crude O-acetyl derivative (IB) of I, m. 163-4° (from C6H6 or H2O); I is regenerated by refluxing with 0.1N HCl or NaOH; heating with AcOH causes no change, but refluxing 30 min. with Ac2O gave the O,1-diacetyl derivative (IC) of I, m. 97-8°. IB in EtOH treated with aqueous AgNO3 gave the Ag salt, C10H9.O2N2Ag. I (0.5 g.) in 150 ml. hot H2O, was chilled and treated with 4 ml. 25% NaOH followed by 52.1 ml. 0.1N iodine in KI yielding a precipitate of 0.82 g. 1-iodo-O-acetyl derivative of I, m. 164° (it is readily analyzed by treatment with 10% KI in 2N HCl, warming and titrating the liberated iodine). I heated 20 min. to 100° with AcONa-Ac2O gave 84% IC, m. 98-9.5° (from C6H6-petr. ether), which boiled with H2O 10 min. gave 100% IB. The 1-Me derivative (II) of I heated 1 hr. at 100° with excess Ac2O and AcOH gave 63% of the 1-methyl-O-acetyl derivative of I, m. 76-8°. IA similarly heated with Ac2O-AcOH 1.5 hrs. gave a red solid, while the filtrate diluted with dry Et2O gave a yellow oil, which with Et2O-CHCl3 gave colorless solid, decompose 256-8°, containing 43.1% iodine. The red solid treated with CHCl3 gave more of the above product, m. 256°; the evaporated solution after treatment with thiosulfate gave the IB, m. 164-5° (from absolute EtOH). Treatment of powd. I.HCl in PhCl at reflux with 20% excess BzCl gave 57.7% 2-(benzoyloxymethyl)benzimidazole (III) HCl salt (IIIA) and 14.5% of the more soluble 1-benzoyl-2-(benzoyloxymethyl)benzimidazole (IV). The former gave III, m. 146-7° (from dilute EtOH), which is stable in hot mineral acids (dilute) and in hot HCl forms the HCl salt, m. 233-5° (from EtOH or H2O); heating with 4N H2SO4 gave the acid sulfate, C15H14O6N2S, m. 207-10° (from dilute H2SO4. Treatment with AgNO3 as above gave the Ag salt, colorless solid of III. IV, m. 89-91°, is decomposed in hot mineral acids yielding salts of the III. The yellow oil observed in the above benzoylation treated with 4N HCl yields IIIA, with liberation of BzCl and BzOH; similar decomposition occurs on standing or heating to 80-100°; the oil contained 5.3% N. II with 20% excess BzCl in C6H6 gave after 1 hr. reflux 81-5% 1-methyl-2-(benzoyloxymethyl)benzimidazole-HCl, m. 195-7° (from dilute HCl), which on drying partly loses its HCl content; with NH4OH this yields the free base, m. 144-6° (from H2O). IA does not undergo the benzoylation reaction.
Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii published new progress about 7467-35-8. 7467-35-8 belongs to imidazoles-derivatives, auxiliary class Benzimidazole,Alcohol, name is (1-Methyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)methanol, and the molecular formula is C26H41N5O7S, Quality Control of 7467-35-8.
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