Basicity of piperidine

Much more important in determining pJCjH is how electron-rich the nitrogen is, and this is the cause of the glaring discrepancy between the basicity of quinuclidine and that of DABCO, or between the basicities of piperidine (p H 11-2) and morpholine (p-K"aH 9.8) or piperazine (pfCan 8.4). The extra heteroatom, through an inductive effect, withdraws electron density from the nitrogen atom, making it less nucleophilic and less basic. In this... 

The hybridization of the orbital that contains an amine s lone pair also affects its basicity. This is illustrated by comparing the basicity of piperidine and pyridine, two nitrogen heterocycles. The lone pair in piperidine resides in an sp hybrid orbital that has 25% s-character. The lone pair in pyridine resides in an sp hybrid orbital that has 33% s-character. 

Tertiary amines greatly accelerate the reactions. The effect is complex since the amines will bind iron as ligands and also decrease proton activity in the medium. That the latter effect must be of major significance is demonstrated by comparing the effects of pyridine and 2,6-lutidine. The latter exerts a more powerful catalysis effect despite the fact that steric hindrance weakens its ligand effect. Consequently, we infer that solvolysis to produce species such as FeCl(OCH3) and Fe( 00113)2 is extensive in the presence of bases and that the alkoxides must be more reactive than FeCb as substrates. The rate in the presence of 0.4M piperidine was immeasurably fast. The powerful acceleration is attributed to the high basicity of piperidine (pK = 2.80 in 50% ethanol) compared with pyridine (pK = 9.62) and 2,6-lutidine (pK, = 8.23). 

Fig. 3 Effect of axial and equatorial electron-withdrawing substituents on basicity of piperidines...

The N-basicity of the commonly used amines (pyrrolidine > piperidine > morpholine) drops by 2-3 orders of magnitude as a consequence of electron pair delocalization in the corresponding enamines. This effect is most pronounced in morpholino enamines (see table below). Furthermore there is a tendency of the five-membered ring to form an energetically favorable exocyclic double bond. This causes a much higher reactivity of pyrroUdino enamines as compared to the piperidino analogues towards electrophiles (G.A. Cook, 1969). 

Nonaromatic heterocyclic compounds piperidine for example are similar m basic ity to alkylamines When nitrogen is part of an aromatic ring however its basicity decreases markedly Pyridine for example resembles arylammes m being almost 1 mil lion times less basic than piperidine... 

The results of more recent investigations by Blicke with Maxwell and with Kaplan covering a wide range of basic components and of acyl residues, do not lend themselves to a simple generalisation. The basic components were mainly dialkylamino-derivatives of aliphatic hydrocarbons from ethane to pentane, e.g.,. CHj. CHj. NMcj to. CHj. CMcj. CHj. NEtj, and similar but shorter series of derivatives of piperidine (CgHjoN), morpholine, e.g.,. CHj. CHj. NC HgO, and methylcj/clohexylamine... 

It is noteworthy that the kinetics indirectly provided the evaluation of the basicities of these enamines [Eq. (4)]. The pK values for 4-(2-methyl-propenyl)morpholinc, l-(2-methylpropenyl)piperidine, and l-(2-methyl-propenyl)pyrrolidine are 5.47, 8.35, and 8.84, respectively (27). Since the protonation of the j8-carbon atom does not possess the character of a real equilibrium at pH 7 and up [for compound 1 even at pH 1 and up] the basicity must be fully ascribed to the equilibrium between enamine and the corresponding nitrogen-protonated conjugate acid. 

The basicity of the enamine has an overriding influence on the yield of product. Good yields are obtained from the pyrrolidine enamines, poor yields from the piperidine enamines, and the morpholine enamines fail to... 

The rate of reaction of a series of nucleophiles with a single substrate is related to the basicity when the nucleophilic atom is the same and the nucleophiles are closely related in chemical type. Thus, although the rates parallel the basicities of anilines (Tables VII and VIII) as a class and of pyridine bases (Tables VII and VIII) as a class, the less basic anilines are much more reactive. This difference in reactivity is based on a lower energy of activation as is the reactivity sequence piperidine > ammonia > aniline. Further relationships among the nucleophiles found in this work are morpholine vs. piperidine (Table III) methoxide vs. 4-nitrophenoxide (Table II) and alkoxides vs. piperidine (Tables II, III, and VIII). Hydrogen bonding in the transition state and acid catalysis increase the rates of reaction of anilines. Reaction rates of the pyridine bases are decreased by steric hindrance between their alpha hydrogens and the substituents or... 

Another competing cyclisation during peptide synthesis is the formation of aspartimides from aspartic acid residues [15]. This problem is common with the aspartic acid-glycine sequence in the peptide backbone and can take place under both acidic and basic conditions (Fig. 9). In the acid-catalysed aspartimide formation, subsequent hydrolysis of the imide-containing peptide leads to a mixture of the desired peptide and a (3-peptide. The side-chain carboxyl group of this (3-peptide will become a part of the new peptide backbone. In the base-catalysed aspartimide formation, the presence of piperidine used during Fmoc group deprotection results in the formation of peptide piperidines. 

Subsequently, the scope of the reaction was extended to N-nucleophiles 82. Because the inherent basicity of the substitution products 83 imposed some problems concerning catalyst decomposition, the addition of catalytic amoimts of piperidine hydrochloride (pip-HCl) proved to be necessary. Under optimized reaction conditions different aromatic amines 82 were allylated with almost exclusive regioselectivites in favor of the ipso substitution products 83 (eq. 1 in Scheme 20) [64]. 

Fig. 4.7 shows the titration with perchloric acid of a mixture of piperidine, ethylenediamine and p-toluidine. Fig. 4.8 illustrates the effect of different chain lengths on the titration (with perchloric acid) of diamines in nitrobenzene containing 2.5% (v/v) of methanol once the first amino group of EDA has been protonated, the resulting proton bridge with the lone pair of electrons of the second amino group lowers the basicity of the latter considerably the effect decreases on the introduction of more intermediate CH2 groups until complete disappearance when six are present. 

There has been a HO study of the stereoelectronic effects in methy1phosphines (90). Steric effects were found to concentrate in the HOHO and accounted for half the substituent effects on the pK values, whilst electronic effects on the HOHO was minimal.242 The relative basicities of polymethoxytriarylphosphines have been measured. Tris(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine was considerably more basic than piperidine.243 The basicities of P-N compounds have been reviewed and their correlation with P-N bond lengths invest igated.2 4 4... 

In the area of theory and physical methods there has been a suggestion that five-membered rings may pseudorotate via top structures possessing a diradical five-membered ring. The introduction of ortho and para substituents to all the phenyl rings of triphenylphosphine dramatically increases the basicity, the resulting compounds being more basic than piperidine. 

Benzoguanamine has been prepared by the reaction of dicyandiamide with benzonitrile in a sealed tube at 220-230°,2 with an excess of benzonitrile in the presence of piperidine and potassium carbonate,3 with benzonitrile in a solvent in the presence of a basic catalyst,4 and with benzamidine hydrochloride at elevated temperatures.5 It has also been prepared from the reaction of biguanide acetate with benzamidine hydrochloride,5 or of bigua-nide sulfate with benzoyl chloride in an alkaline medium,7 and by the distillation of guanidine benzoate.5... 

Since morpholine and piperidine are stereochemically similar but exhibit different pKa values, the difference between their rates in the reactions of the fluoro-substrates in acetonitrile could be also due to a change in mechanism, whereby proton transfer from the intermediate 1 in equation 1 becomes rate-limiting when the reagent is morpholine. The change from an uncatalysed to a base-catalysed reaction with decrease in basicity of the nucleophile is well known in ANS for both primary and secondary amines1 200. 

The active principle of dart frog poisons is alkaloids. The study of the den-drobatid poisons led to the discovery of over 200 new alkaloids, including batrachotoxins Pig. 10.5), pumiliotoxins, histrionicotoxins, gephyrotoxins, and decahydroquinolines (Daly et al., 1994). The most common compounds have the basic structure of piperidine and include histrionotoxin. In Phyllobates, the synthesis of other alkaloids is suppressed in favor of batrachotoxins. These are... 

The basicities of the simple heterocycles piperidine and pyrrolidine vary little from that of a secondary amine such as dimethylamine. pATa values for the conjugate bases of these three compounds are 11.1, 11.3, and 10.7 respectively. 

Pyridine, like benzene, is an aromatic system with six jt electrons (see Section 11.3). The ring is planar, and the lone pair is held in an sp orbital. The increased s character of this orbital, compared with the sp orbital in piperidine, means that the lone pair electrons are held closer to the nitrogen and, consequently, are less available for protonation. This hybridization effect explains the lower basicity of pyridine compared with piperidine. Pyrrole is also aromatic, but there is a significant difference, in that both of the lone pair electrons are contributing to the six-jr-electron system. As part of the delocalized Jt electron system, the lone pairs are consequently not available for bonding to... 

From the pATa values shown, there is relatively little difference in basicities for diethylamine, pyrrolidine, or piperidine. Note, however, that morpholine and piperazine are weaker bases than piperidine. This is the result of an electron-withdrawing inductive effect from the second heteroatom, making the nitrogen atom both less basic and also less nucleophilic. This makes morpholine a useful base with basicity between that of piperidine and pyridine pK 5.2) (see Section 4.6). The second pK value for the diamine piperazine is substantially lower than the first, since the inductive effect from the protonated amine will withdraw electrons away from the unprotonated amine (see Section 4.7). 

The reduced basicity of phenothiazine nitrogen requires that even acylation proceed via the anion. The amide (34-2) from the methyl thioether (34-1) can be prepared, for example, by sequential reaction with sodium amide and acetic anhydride. Oxidation of that intermediate with peracid proceeds preferentially on the more electron-rich alkyl thioether to give the sulfone this affords the phenothiazine (34-3) on hydrolysis of the amide. Complex side chains are most conveniently incorporated in a stepwise fashion. The first step in the present sequence involves reaction of (34-3) as its anion with l-bromo-3-chloropropane to give (34-4). The use of that halide with alkylate piperidine-4-carboxamide (34-5) affords the antipsychotic agent metopimazine (34-6) [35]. 

For the general condensation reaction of secondary amines with ketones to yield enamines, pyrrolidine, piperidine, or morpholine is generally used. The rate of enamine formation depends on the basicity of the secondary amine and the steric environment of the carbonyl group [12a, b, 29], Pyrrolidine, which is more basic, usually reacts faster than morpholine. The investigation of piperazine, a disecondary amine, has only been reported recently by Benzing [45, 46] and Sandler [41]. Surprisingly, the reaction of excess -butyraldehyde with piperazine in tetrahydrofuran at — 20°C to 0°C gave mainly AM-butenyl-piperazine [41] (see Eq. 13). 

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