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5,6-Dinitro-1,3-dihydro-benzoimidazol-2-one can be useful in the preparation of a naked-eye on-off-on polypyridyl-based ruthenium complex light switch based on a reversible conformational switch of G-quadruplex DNA. It can also be useful in the study of reduction of nitroaromatic compounds by NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) and the role of electron-accepting potency and structural parameters in substrate specificity.