Introduction Gastrointestinal nematodes in grazing animals cause major production losses and represent an animal welfare problem worldwide. For decades use of anthelmintics has been central in the control programs of these parasites. This intensive use of anthelmintic drugs has resulted in problems with resistance to the anthelmintic drugs available today. Resistance to all classes of broadspec...

The life-threatening diseases alveolar and cystic echinococcoses are caused by larvae of the tapeworms Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosus, respectively. In both cases, intermediate hosts, such as humans, are infected by oral uptake of oncosphere larvae, followed by asexual multiplication and almost unrestricted growth of the metacestode within host organs. Besides surgery, echinococc...

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a disease predominantly affecting the liver, with metacestodes (larvae) of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis proliferating and exhibiting tumor-like infiltrative growth. For many years, chemotherapeutical treatment against alveolar echinococcosis has relied on the benzimidazoles albendazole and mebendazole, which require long treatment durations and exhibi...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(20)H(16)N(2)O, contains two mol-ecules. The dihedral angles between the benzimidazole ring systems and the attached benzene rings are 10.6 (5) and 13.7 (5)°. The conformers are linked by bifurcated three-centre hydrogen bonds, forming chains along the diagonal of the ab plane. The packing is further stabilized by π-π and C-H⋯π inter-actions.

In the title compound, C20H18N2P, the P atom is bonded to the two phenyl and imidazole groups, with an average P-C bond length of 1.828 (2) Å. The three C-P-C bond angles have values consistent with a tetra-hedral geometry around the P atom with the fourth site occupied by a H atom. Crystal packing is through van der Waals inter-actions.

In the title compound, C19H14FN3, the dihedral angles between the benzimidazole unit (r.m.s. deviation= 0.017 Å) and the pyridine and benzene rings are 24.46 (4) and 81.87 (3)°, respectively. In the crystal, mol-ecules are stacked along the a-axis direction by C-H⋯π inter-actions.