Underexplored atom swap reactions offer the opportunity to selectively edit organic molecules and to streamline lead discovery and optimization in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industry. Now it has been shown that benzimidazoles can be accessed from indoles via C-to-N atom swap. The method was applied to 15 drug-like indoles.
- Ann-Sophie K. Paschke
- Yannick Brägger
- Bill Morandi