Azines aromatization

Oxidathe deavane of azines. Aromatic azines, for example benzalazine (1), are oxidatively cleaved to the parent aldehyde or ketone in high yield when treated with periodic acid at room temperature in glacial acetic acid or N,N-dimethylformamide (I 2 molar ratio of substrate to oxidant). 

Table 6 One-bond Coupling Constants (Hz) in the Simple Monocyclic Aromatic Azines (cf. 159 Hz for...

H-Bond Acceptor-Donor (HBAD) Phenols Aromatic acids Aromatic amines Alpha H nitriles Iniines Monocarboj hc acids Other monoacids Peracids Alpha H nitros Azines Primary amines Secondary amines n-alcohols Other alcohols Ether alcohols... 

The exclusion of nitrogen-bridged bicyclic azines is purely arbitrary since the work on such azinoazines with a 10 7r-electron system (and the necessarily accompanying quaternary nitrogen-bridgehead atom) shows the activation expected of other aromatic azinium... 

It is quite reasonable to expect the bimolecular two-stage mechanism Sj Ar ) to predominate in most aromatic nucleophilic substitutions of activated substrates. However, only in rare instances is there adequate evidence to rule out the simultaneous occurrence or predominance of other mechanisms. The true significance of the alternative mechanisms in azines needs to be determined by trapping the intermediates or by applying modem separation and characterization methods to the identification of at least the major portion of the products, especially in kinetic studies. 

The scope of heteroaryne or elimination-addition type of substitution in aromatic azines seems likely to be limited by its requirement for a relatively unactivated leaving group, for an adjacent ionizable substituent or hydrogen atom, and for a very strong base. However, reaction via the heteroaryne mechanism may occur more frequently than is presently appreciated. For example, it has been recently shown that in the reaction of 4-chloropyridine with lithium piperidide, at least a small amount of aryne substitution accompanies direct displacement. The ratio of 4- to 3-substitution was 996 4 and, therefore, there was 0.8% or more pyridyne participation. Heteroarynes are undoubtedly subject to orientation and steric effects which frequently lead to the overwhelming predominance of... 

The catalytic effect of aromatic nitro groups in the substrate and product or in an added inert nitro compoimd (e.g., w-dinitrobenzene in 18) has been observed in the reaction of 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene with an amine in chloroform. Hydrogen bonding to benzil or to dimethyl sulfone and sulfoxide also provided catalysis. It is clear that the type of catalysis of proton transfer shown in structure 18 will be more effective when hydrogen bonding is to an azine-nitrogen. 

There are conflicting generalizations in the heterocyclic literature as to the relative reactivity of a- and y-positions in azines toward nucleophiles. Variations in the relative reactivity are attributed in this and subsequent sections to specific factors operating in addition to activation by azine-nitrogen. Another possible source of variation may be a decrease in selectivity with increasing reactivity of one or both reagents, an effect established in electrophilic aromatic... 

One significant difference between nitrocarboaromatics and aromatic azines is the tendency of the activating center of the latter to react with electrophiles or compounds capable of hydrogen bonding, thereby accelerating nucleophilic substitution. 

The effects of the nucleophile on aromatic substitution which are pertinent to our main theme of relative reactivity of azine rings and of ring-positions are brought together here. The influence of a nucleophile on relative positional reactivity can arise from its characteristics alone or from its interaction with the ring or with ring-substituents. The effect of different nucleophiles on the rates of reaction of a single substrate has been discussed in terms of polarizability, basicity, alpha effect (lone-pair on the atom adjacent to the nucleophilic atom), and solvation in several reviews and papers. ... 

As the size of the nucleophile increases, reaction adjacent to a solvated azine-nitrogen or to a quatemized ring-nitrogen will be sterically hindered. The very large decelerative effect o > of solvation of the nucleophile in aromatic substitution is mentioned in Section I, D, 2, d. 

Specific alterations of the relative reactivity due to hydrogen bonding in the transition state or to a cyclic transition state or to electrostatic attraction in quaternary compounds or protonated azines are included below (cf. also Sections II, B, 3 II, B, 5 II, C and II, F). A-Protonation is often reflected in an increase in JS and therefore the relative reactivity can vary with the significance of JS in controlling the reaction rate. Variation can also result from rate determination by the second stage of the SjjAr2 mechanism or from the intervention of thermodynamic control of product formation. Variation in the rate and in the reactivity pattern of polyazanaph-thalenes will result when nucleophilic substitution [Eq. (10)] occurs only on a covalent adduct (408) of the substrate rather than on its aromatic form (400). This covalent addition is prevented by any 4-... 

The first possibility for aromatization of the cr -adduets of azine iV-oxides is their oxidation with oxidizing agents, resulting in the eorresponding substituted azine iV-oxides with the retention of the iV-oxide group (Seheme 1, pathway A). When (T -adduets eontain an auxiliary leaving group, autoaromatization takes... 

The product of condensation of a hydrazine and an aldehyde or ketone is called a hydrazone. Hydrazine itself gives hydrazones only with aryl ketones. With other aldehydes and ketones, either no useful product can be isolated, or the remaining NH2 group condenses with a second mole of carbonyl compound to give an azine. This type of product is especially important for aromatic aldehydes ... 

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