2-Bromo-6-hydroxypyrazine

Hydroxypyrazines or 2(l//)-pyrazinones are also subject to electrophilic halogenation. A new result is that 1-benzyl- or 1-phenyl-substituted 2(l//)-pyrazinones undergo bromination with NBS or A -iodosuccinimide (NIS) to give the 5-bromo or iodo-2(l//)-pyrazinones in 66-82% yields <2004TL1885, 2005T3953>. 

The preparation of 3,6-disubstituted 2-hydroxypyrazine 1-oxides from (11), which were derived from a-aminohydroxamic acids and a,fl-unsaturated a-bromo-... 

Bromination of 5-s-butyl-3-hydroxy-2-isobutylpyrazine (deoxyaspergillic acid) in aqueous solution or acetic acid gave 2-bromo-3-s-butyl-5-hydroxy-6-isobutylpyrazine (bromodeoxyaspergjllic acid) (87) bromination of 2-s-buty-3-hydroxy-5-isobutyl-pyrazine in acetic acid gave 2-bromo-6-s-butyl-5-hydroxy-3-isobutylpyrazine (93) and 3-hydroxy-2,5-diphenylpyrazine behaved similarly (282). This procedure with bromine in acetic acid was unsatisfactory when applied to simpler hydroxypyrazines (817), and bromination of 3,6(and 5,6)-disubstituted-2-hydroxypyrazines and 2-... 

Amino-3-hydroxypyrazine with phosphoryl bromide at 140-150° for 20 minutes gave 2-amino-3-bromopyrazine (807) and 2-hydroxy-6-methoxycarbonyl-pyrazine with phosphoryl bromide at 125° for 10 minutes gave 2-bromo-6-methoxycarbonylpyrazine (867). 

Section II.7 describes some ring closures of the C-C-N-C-C, N-C-C-N-C-C, and N-C-C-N-C-C-N systems to give hydroxypyrazines (248, 365a, 477, 479, 480-483) more information can be found in reference 1054. Newbold and Spring (89) described the reaction of 2-bromo-A -(r-methyl-2 -oxopropyl)propionamide with ethanolic ammonia to give 2-hydroxy-3,5,6-trimethylpyrazine and Masaki et al. (551) have described the reaction of A -leucyl-6>-benzyIhydroxylamine (2) with phenacyl bromide in methanol saturated with ammonia to give 3-hydroxy-2-isobutyl-5-phenylpyrazine and 2,5-diphenylpyrazine. 

Crystal structures of 3,5,6-tri-t-butyl-2-hydroxypyrazine (1093) 2,5-dichloro-3-methoxypyrazine (915) and 2,3-dichloro-5-ethylamino-6-methoxypyrazine (916) have been determined. The dipole moment of 2-amino-5-bromo-3-methoxypyrazine (2.94D in benzene) is consistent with the S-cis configuration (52) (749) and the polarographic behavior of 3-hydroxy(and methoxy)-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (and their A(-oxides) at various pH values has been investigated (588). 

Preparations of hydroxypyrazine A-oxides by primary syntheses have been included in Chapter III and are summarized briefly as follows Section 1II.3, 2-hydroxypyrazine 1-oxides from a-aminohydroxamic acids and 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds or a,/l-unsaturated a-bromo aldehydes (545-548) Section III.4, 2-hydroxy-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide from the bisulfite derivatives of pyruvo-hydroxamic acid and aminoacetone (548) and Section III.5, ring closure of the C-C-N-C-C-N-0 system (545, 546, 548-553). In addition to these preparations... 

The diazotization of aminopyrazines has been described in earlier sections. Section V.IH records the preparation of 2-fluoropyrazine from 2-aminopyrazine in fluoroboric acid containing copper powder with sodium nitrite (882, 884) and Section V.ll the preparation of iodopyrazines from some aminopyrazines via isodiazotate salts (30) (887). These salts were assigned the isodiazotate structure, on the basis of their inability to couple with 0-naphthol in alkaline solution (887) and they were characterized by hydrolysis in cold 40% aqueous sulfuric acid to the hydroxypyrazine (887). Section V.I K describes the conversion of aminopyrazines to bromopyrazines (798, 800, 807, 890-892) for example, 2-amino-3-methoxy-carbonylpyrazine with hydrobromic acid, bromine, and sodium nitrite in water gave 2-bromo-3-methoxycarbonylpyrazine (798, 890). The diazotization of aminopyrazines to hydroxypyrazines has been described in Section VI. 1C, to alkoxy-pyrazines in Section V1.3C, and to oxopyrazines in Section V1.9A(5). 2-Amino-pyrazine with isopentyl nitrite in benzene gave 2-phenylpyrazine (45%) and some 2-isopentoxypyrazine and 2,2 -dipyrazinyl amino isomers (1211). 

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