Azoles rings

Orientation in azole rings containing three or four heteroatoms Effect of azole ring structure and of substituents Proton acids on neutral azoles basicity of azoles Proton acids on azole anions acidity of azoles Metal ions... 

The carbon atoms of azole rings can be attacked by nucleophilic (Section 4.02.1.6 electrophilic (Section 4.02.1.4) and free radical reagents (Section 4.02.1.8.2). Some system for example the thiazole, imidazole and pyrazole nuclei, show a high degree of aromati character and usually revert to type if the aromatic sextet is involved in a reaction. Othei such as the isoxazole and oxazole nuclei are less aromatic, and hence more prone to additio reactions. 

Orientation in azole rings contqining three or four heteroatoms... 

Amination at an azole ring nitrogen is known for Af-unsubstituted azoles. Thus 4,5-diphenyl-1,2,3-triazole with hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid gives approximately equal amounts of the 1- (104) and 2-amino derivatives (105) (74AHC(16)33). Pyrazole affords (106) and indazole gives comparable amounts of the 1- and 2-amino derivatives. 

Because of the increased importance of inductive electron withdrawal, nucleophilic attack on uncharged azole rings generally occurs under milder conditions than those required for analogous reactions with pyridines or pyridones. Azolium rings are very easily attacked by nucleophilic reagents reactions similar to those of pyridinium and pyrylium compounds are known azolium rings open particularly readily. 

The electronic environment of an a-substituent on pyridine (319) approaches that of a substituent on the corresponding imino compound (320) and is intermediate between those of substituents on benzene and substituents attached to carbonyl groups (321, 322) (cf. discussion in Chapter 2.02). Substituents attached to certain positions in azole rings show similar properties to those of a- and y-substituents on pyridine. However, the azoles also possess one heteroatom which behaves as an electron source and which tends to oppose the effect of other heteroatom(s). 

Primary amino groups attached to azole rings react normally with nitrous acid to give diazonium compounds via primary nitroso compounds. However, the azole series shows two special characteristics the primary nitroso compounds can be stable enough to be isolated, and diazo anhydrides are formed easily from azoles containing ring NH groups. 

Nitro groups on azole rings are often smoothly displaced by nucleophiles even more readily than are halogen atoms in the corresponding position. Thus 2,4,5-trinitroimidazole (450) is converted by HCl successively into (451) and (452) (80AHC(27)24l). 

It is instructive to consider Af-substituted azoles in reverse, i.e. the azole ring as the substituent linked to some other group. Hammett and Taft cr-constant values for azoles as substituents are given in Table 11. The values show that all the azoles are rather weak net resonance donors, imidazole being the strongest. They are all rather strong inductive acceptors, with pyrazole considerably weaker in this respect than imidazole or the triazoles. 

Af-Linked azole rings behave as good leaving groups, the more so the more nitrogen atoms contained in the ring (cf. Section 4.02.3.12.4). 

Electrophilic substitution occurs readily in Af-phenyl groups, e.g. 1-phenyI-pyrazoIes, -imidazoles and -pyrazolinones are all nitrated and halogenated at the para position. The aryl group is attacked preferentially when the reactions are carried out in strongly acidic media, where the azole ring is protonated. 

The azole ring can activate metallation at the ortho position of an Af-phenyl group, as in 1-phenyIpyrazoIes. 

Compound (122) is also obtained by decarboxylative ring-opening of l,2-benzisoxazole-3-carboxylic acid. It has also been concluded that the reaction involves an intermediateless, concerted loss of carbon dioxide via a transition state in which the negative charge is spread over the carboxyl group and the isox azole ring. 

Tolylaulfonylmethyl isocyanide is a useful and versatile reagent in organic chemistry. It has been used for the synthesis of several azole ring systems by base-induced addition of its C—N=C moiety to various... 

The conclusions about the influence of azole ring substituents on the tautomeric equilibria are summarized in Table VIII. Although sufficient data are available for pyrazoles and imidazoles, it is difficult to correlate them within any well-defined scheme. The energy differences between pairs of tautomers are generally quite small and attempts to analyze these using, for example, the Taft-Topson model failed [95JCR(S)172]. In the case of mono-substituted compounds, Hammet-type equations... 

There exist many types of azoloquinolines, and therefore it is necessary to define the objects of interest to be described in this review. The tricyclic azoloquinolines reviewed in this article have an azole ring fused to the benzene ring of quinoline (not isoquinoline derivatives) in positions / g, and h. This means that the benzene ring is between azole and pyridine rings, and all of them are ortho-peri condensed. The azole and benzene rings do not have a common heteroatom, and also a carbon... 

Products of cyclization of 5-aminoethylene benzotriazole derivatives with eliminated prototropy of the azole ring can be alkylated on the nitrogen atom of the pyridone and then hydrolyzed to the corresponding acids (76JAP(K)1, 89FA619). The prepared compounds 167-169 and their salts were tested against bacteria (no data) (76JAP(K)1). 

Coupling of the diazotetrazole with ethyl cyanoacetate gave 1034. Its cyclization in boiling acetic acid or pyridine afforded 1035 as the major product in addition to 1036. Mass spectral fragmentation of 1035 confirmed that the azole ring is more stable than the 1,2,4-triazine ring on electron impact [76JCS(P1) 1496] (Scheme 194). 

The compounds referred to as azolides are heterocyclic amides in which the amide nitrogen is part of an azole ring, such as imidazole, pyrazole, triazole, tetrazole, benzimidazole, benzotriazole, and their substituted derivatives. In contrast to normal amides, most of which show particularly low reactivities in such nucleophilic reactions as hydrolysis, alcoholysis, aminolysis, etc., the azolides are characterized by high reactivities in reactions with nucleophiles within the carbonyl group placing these compounds at about the same reactivity level as the corresponding acid chlorides or anhydrides. 11... 

Substitution on the carbon atoms of the azole rings has the expected effect electron-withdrawing substituents such as nitro or halogen increase the reactivity of the azolides, whereas alkyl substituents lead to a decrease in transacylation rates. 101... 

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