Benzene rings nitrogen

The chemical shifts of the para carbon atom in the spectra of /V,/V-dimethyl- and N,N-diethylanilines and 1-phenylaziridine, 1-phenylpyrrolidine, 3 (n = 5), and 1-phenylpiperid-ine, 3 (n = 6), correlate well with other known measures of benzene ring-nitrogen... 

Piperazinothiazoies (2) were obtained by such a replacement reaction, Cu powder being used as catalyst (25. 26). 2-Piperidinothiazoles are obtained in a similar way (Scheme 2) (27). This catalytic reaction has been postulated in the case of benzene derivatives as a nucleophilic substitution on the copper-complexed halide in which the halogen possesses a positive character by coordination (29). For heterocyclic compounds the coordination probably occurs on the ring nitrogen. 

The hemicyanines constitute a particular class among streptocyanines in which one of the two nitrogen atoms belongs to a heterocycloammonium. Thiazolohemicyanine corresponds to the general formula in Scheme 31. When R = R, = H. the dyes are of aminovinyl type when R = H. R3 = Ph. they are aniiinovinyl compounds, and when (-CH=CH) is replaced by a benzene ring, they are aminophenyl. 

In conclusion, in terms of electrophilic reactivity a methyl group in the 2-position is equally reactive in the two categories of heterocycles (selenazole and thiazole). Of the two positions ortho to nitrogen, only the 2-position is activated. The 5-position is sensitive to electrophilic reagents and resembles more closely the para position of a benzene ring. 

Substitution of two carbon atoms of a benzene ring by tervalent nitrogen atoms may occur in three ways, giving rise to pyridazines (see Chapter 2.12), the pyrimidines (see Chapter 2.13) and the pyrazines, with the nitrogen atoms occupying a 1,2-, 1,3- or 1,4-disposition respectively. 

The electron density at nitrogen in phenazine is intermediate between those of pyrazine and quinoxaline and the highest electron density on the carbon atoms of the benzene rings is at C-1 (with positions 4, 6 and 9 being equivalent). ... 

Annular tautomerism (e.g. 133 134) involves the movement of a proton between two annular nitrogen atoms. For unsubstituted imidazole (133 R = H) and pyrazole (135 R = H) the two tautomers are identical, but this does not apply to substituted derivatives. For triazoles and tetrazoles, even the unsubstituted parent compounds show two distinct tautomers. Flowever, interconversion occurs readily and such tautomers cannot be separated. Sometimes one tautomeric form predominates. Thus the mesomerism of the benzene ring is greater in (136) than in (137), and UV spectral comparisons show that benzotriazole exists predominantly as (136). 

Azoles containing a free NH group react comparatively readily with acyl halides. N-Acyl-pyrazoles, -imidazoles, etc. can be prepared by reaction sequences of either type (66) -> (67) or type (70)->(71) or (72). Such reactions have been carried out with benzoyl halides, sulfonyl halides, isocyanates, isothiocyanates and chloroformates. Reactions occur under Schotten-Baumann conditions or in inert solvents. When two isomeric products could result, only the thermodynamically stable one is usually obtained because the acylation reactions are reversible and the products interconvert readily. Thus benzotriazole forms 1-acyl derivatives (99) which preserve the Kekule resonance of the benzene ring and are therefore more stable than the isomeric 2-acyl derivatives. Acylation of pyrazoles also usually gives the more stable isomer as the sole product (66AHCi6)347). The imidazole-catalyzed hydrolysis of esters can be classified as an electrophilic attack on the multiply bonded imidazole nitrogen. 

Substituents cannot directly conjugate with /3-pyridine-like nitrogen atoms. Azole substituents which are not a or y to a pyridine-like nitrogen react as they would on a benzene ring. Conjugation with an a-pyridine-like nitrogen is much more effective across a formal double bond thus the 5-methyl group in 3,5-dimethyl-l,2,4-oxadiazole (323) is by far the more reactive. 

The effect of pH is rarely of use for pK measurement it is more often of use in identifying the site of protonation/deprotonation when several basic or acidic sites are present. Knowing the incremental substitutent effects Z of amino and ammonium groups on benzene ring shifts in aniline and in the anilinium ion (40), one can decide which of the nitrogen atoms is protonated in procaine hydrochloride (problem 24). 

Pyridine is the prototypic electron-poor 6-membered ring heterocycle conceptually obtained by replacing one of the CH units of benzene with nitrogen (Figure 8.1.1). The aromaticity originally found in the benzene framework is maintained in... 

The introduction of a nitrogen atom into the benzene ring of indole affords a center, not present in indole itself, at which quaternary salt formation occurs readily, and the base 95 is converted into a quaternary salt (96) on the pyridine-type nitrogen atom. ... 

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