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Structural Alert: Benzimidazoles


An informative letter, just published by a team from Novartis, highlights the risk of suitably substituted benzimidazoles acting as latent precursors to reactive ortho-iminoquinone species.  The example they report (see structure on left below) was Ames positive and exhibited time-dependent inhibition … Continue reading

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