Aromatic pyrrole

A mechanism has been formulated, starting with a condensation to give the imine 4, that can tautomerize to the corresponding enamine 5. The latter can be isolated in some cases, thus supporting the formulated mechanism. A cyclization and subsequent dehydration leads to the imine 6, which tautomerizes to yield the aromatic pyrrole 3 ... 

Systematic investigations have deary demonstrated that in the presence of metal ions the conjugated hexahydroporphyrin forms are thermodynamically favored by complexation whereas in the absence of metal ions the porphyrinogen form with isolated aromatic pyrrole rings is the thermodynamically stable tautomer. 

The DSC and TGA plots of the oxidized polymer (VIII) showed that the Tm is 130°C and the weight loss of 20% and 80% was observed at 455°C and 600°C, respectively, compared to 400° and 482°C for the original polymer VII indicating the oxidized polymer was more stable to heat. This observation was consistent with the chemical structure of the oxidized polymer, which consisted of a repeating aromatic pyrrole structure and, therefore, should be more thermodynamically stable. The thermal data of the polymers are tabulated in Table II. 

Poly(N-phenyl-3,4-dimethylenepyrroline) had a higher melting point than poly(N-phenyl-3,4-dimethylenepyrrole) (171° vs 130°C). However, the oxidized polymer showed a better heat stability in the thermogravimetric analysis. This may be attributed to the aromatic pyrrole ring structures present in the oxidized polymer, because the oxidized polymer was thermodynamically more stable than the original polymer. Poly(N-phenyl-3,4-dimethylenepyrroline) behaved as a polyelectrolyte in formic acid and had an intrinsic viscosity of 0.157 (dL/g) whereas, poly(N-pheny1-3,4-dimethylenepyrrole) behaved as a polyelectrolyte in DMF and had an intrinsic viscosity of 0.099 (dL/g). No common solvent for these two polymers could be found, therefore, a comparison of the viscosities before and after the oxidation was not possible. 

Oxo-derivatives of pyrazole also contain an amide group replacing two carbon atoms in the aromatic pyrrole ring. Antipyrine [146] is... 

Finally, indole ring formation is via condensation of the amino and keto functions. This is analogous to imine formation, as seen in part (a), but dehydration produces the aromatic pyrrole ring rather than an imine. Alternatively, one could write imine formation followed by tautomerism to the aromatic enamine. 

A more recent report has outlined the use of a-silylimidates for the construction of aromatic pyrroles (7). Treatment of the precursor 29, with trifluorophenylsilane and DMAD furnished the adduct 30 in 97% yield after purification. The reaction was rationalized via quaternization of the imidate and subsequent intramolecular desilylation by fluorine to develop the ylide, which underwent in situ cycloaddition and subsequent aromatization delivering 30 (Scheme 3.7). 

Another application was described by Reissig et al. with the cyclization of alkoxyallenes. The most relevant finding reported in this paper was the obtainment of aromatic pyrrole, with the absence of dihydropyrrole product [44]. 

Neutral aromatic Pyrrole species anion v Isomers of aromatic pyrroles ... 

The aromatic pyrrole, indole, isoindole and carbazole rings can in general be obtained by oxidative aromatization of more highly reduced nonaromatic derivatives. In practice this method has been of most synthetic significance for indoles and carbazoles, where the corresponding 2,3-dihydroindoles (indolines) and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazoles are accessible by a variety of synthetic pathways. 

We have used a different approach to compare the aromaticities of phosphole (8) and pyrrole (10) [23, 24], From literature data on derivatives of 8 and 9 it is known that the inversion barrier of phosphole is about 67 kJ mol-1 (70.2 kJ mol-1 at the B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ level) [25] while that of tetrahydrophosphole amounts to 163 kJ mol-1. This is explained by the fact that the planar transition state of 8 is highly aromatic. Pyrrole (10) is planar and pyrrolidine has a calculated inversion barrier of 15-17 kJ mol-1. Several aromaticity indices were used in this study, based on different criteria of aromaticity energetic (aromatic stabilization energy, ASE), geometric (harmonic oscillator model of aromaticity, HOMA, and /5), and magnetic (NICS). 

For example, the oxidation of 115 in the presence of cadmium chloride yields a dark green powder which formulates as 116 Cl [60], The optical spectrum of cation 116 bears some resemblance to those of other aromatic pyrrole-containing macrocycles [24-27, 66]. The dominant transition, in chloroform, is a Soret-like... 

Methoxatin has an aromatic pyridine ring (don t count the lone pair as it is in an sp orbital) and in aromatic pyrrole ring (do count the lone pair as it is in a p orbital) but the middle ring cannot be even six electrons even if you try delocalization (example given). 

Woodward has pointed out that porphyrins contain pyrrole units that are on average one half of an electron away from a stable 6-ji-electron configuration [Woodward (214)]. From the presumed tendency to become aromatic pyrrole units one can deduce a metalloporphyrin resonance structure like (VIII), where the methine bridge carbons have lost n-... 

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