OBJECTIVES We analysed, in a cell-by-cell study, the in vitro susceptibility of Giardia duodenalis strains, including Mexican isolates and their clones to 5-nitroimidazoles and benzimidazoles. METHODS Fluorogenic dye staining (FDA-PI) and cell morphology (CM) assays, two fast and direct techniques, replaced the indirect 'gold standard' method (subculture in liquid medium) in the evaluation of...

Author: Steven Tai-hsiang Chao Title: Designer Benzimidazoles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications Supervising Professor: Christopher W. Bielawski, Ph.D. The research presented in this thesis is centered on the design and synthesis of molecules which are derived from benzimidazoles and their applications. The first chapter provides an introduction to benzimidazoles and N-heterocyclic ...

N-Indolyl or N-benzofuranyl indoles and benzimidazoles were prepared through metal-catalyzed tandem reactions between 2-alkynyl cyclohexadienimines or cyclohexadienones and 2-alkynylanilines or N(1)-benzylbenzene-1,2-diamine.

A series of novel 1-(2'-α-O-D-glucopyranosyl ethyl) 2-arylbenzimidazoles has been prepared via one-pot glycosylation of ethyl-1-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-2-arylbenzimidazole-5-carboxylate derivatives. Synthesis of the 2-arylbenzimidazole aglycones from 4-fluoro-3-nitrobenzoic acid was accomplished in four high-yielding steps. The reduction and cyclocondensation steps for the aglycone synthesis proceede...

The title compound, C18H13Br3N2S2, was obtained via the reaction of N-bromo-succinamide with 5,6-dimethyl-2-(thio-phen-2-yl)-1-[(thio-phen-2-yl)meth-yl]-1H-benzimidazole. The compound exhibits rotational disorder of the 5-bromo-thio-phen-2-yl substituent with a refined major:minor occupancy ratio of 0.876 (7):0.124 (7). The 5-bromo-thio-phen-2-yl mean plane is canted to the benzimidazole plane ...

A new method was developed to identify nonpeptidic metalloproteinase inhibitors with novel zinc binding groups. Application of this method to matrix metalloproteinase-9 resulted in the identification of aminomethyl benzimidazole analogue 7a with an IC(50)=13 microM.

1-(6-Bromo-3-methyl-1,3-thiazolo[3,2-alpha]benzimidazol-2-yl)ethanone (2) was prepared by bromination at ambient temperature of 1-(3-methylthiazolo[3,2-alpha]benzimidazol-2-yl)ethanone (1). The structure of 2 was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The precursor 5 was synthesized by heating a mixture of acetyl 2 and bromine. Various 2-substituted 6-bromo-3-methylthiazolo[3,2-alpha]b...