Esr and polarography of nitroazoles. 4. Polarographic study of nitrobenzimidazoles

The electrochemical reduction of 2-substituted 5(6)-benzimidazoles has been studied with the aid of classical polarography and cyclic voltammetry in acetonitrile. The influence of the substituents in position 2 on the magnitudes of the half-wave potentials of the first stage is exerted by induction and resonance mechanisms with approximately the same contributions, and that on the magnitudes of the half-wave potentials of the second stage predominantly by the resonance mechanism. The possibilities of taking the radical-stabilizing factor into account in the correlations are discussed. In order to study the 2-substituted 5(6)-nitrobenzimidazole series, their pK_a values in acetonitrile have been determined by potentiometric titration.For communication 3, see [1].Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1246–1251, September, 1984.