Bioorganic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Materials‐Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China
Abstract:
2‐Aryl‐1‐arylmethyl‐1H‐benzimidazoles were prepared in excellent yields by the condensation of o‐phenylenediamine with aldehydes under mechanically activated solvent‐free conditions in ball mill using FeCl3·6H2O as the catalyst.