6- Bromo-2-methylquinoline

Under the phase-transfer catalysis conditions, 2-bromo-8-methylquino-line (67) was coupled with 2-pyridylboronic ester 68 to furnish 2-(2-pyridyl)-8-methylquinoline (69) in 56% yield (91JOC6787). At this point, it is opportune to mention that the simple 2-pyridylborane, in contrast to 3- and (4-pyridyl)boranes, is considered an unsuitable Suzuki coupling partner because it forms an unusually stable cyclic dimer resembling a dihydroanthracene. In this case, the obstacle was circumvented by using 2-pyridylboronic ester in place of 2-pyridylborane (Scheme 9). 

Nucleophilic substitution most readily occurs at the 2- and 4-position of the more electron-deficient heterocyclic ring of quinolines. However, SNAr reactions at the carbocyclic ring can occur, mainly at positions 5 and 7. 5,7-Dibromo-8-hydroxyquinoline, 5-bromo-8-hydroxyquinoline, and 7-bromo-8-hydroxy-5-methylquinoline undergo conversion to the corresponding chloroquinolines on treatment with neat pyridine hydrochloride at 220 °C in a process that is postulated to proceed via the formation of stabilized Meisenheimer complexes <1996TL6695> (Equations 20 and 21). 

A palladium-catalyzed reaction has been reported to C-6 alkylate 6-bromoimidazo[4,5-h]pyridine (109) <87EUP290153>. In this reaction, 2-methoxy-6-bromo-8-methylquinoline (110) was treated with butyllithium to give the 6-lithiated derivative (111). To this compound (111) was added zinc chloride, followed by 6-bromoimidazo[4,5-/>]pyridine (109) and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0)... 

The structure of ra-complexes has been examined by the X-ray crystallographic studies of solid samples and by the spectral measurement of heterocycle-halogen equilibria in solution. By the former approach the structure of the solid 1 2 pyridine-molecular iodine complex has been shown to consist principally of two pyridine molecules collinearly bonded to an iodine atom and of linear triiodide units. Moreover, in the 1 1 complex of dioxane and bromine, the heterocyclic oxygen-bromine-bromine linkages are also collinear.4 In the latter type of study, interest in the well-known phenomenon of brown iodine solutions has occasioned the measurement of the stability constants for many complexes of halogen and heterocycles.25, 29 Information concerning their structure in solution comes from a consideration of the relative size of such constants as a function of heterocycle structure. Thus, the fact that bromine complexes of both 8-bromo- and 8-methylquinolines possess stability constants (K = 1.1 and 4.8 liters/mole) much smaller than that of quinoline itself... 

A mixture of 6-bromo-4-(tri luoromethanesulfonyloxy)-5,8-dimethoxy-quinoline (1.35 g, 3.25 mmol), trimethyl[2-[(l,l-dimethylethoxycarbonyl)-amino]phenyl]tin (1.68 g, 4.70 mmol), lithium chloride (330 mg, 7.80 mmol), copper(I) bromide (25 mg, 0.17 mmol), and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palla-dium (0) (180 mg, 0.16 mmol) in dioxane (60 cm ) was heated at 90 °C for 60 h. After being cooled to rt, the mixture was partitioned between EtOAc and a 5 % aqueous ethylenediamine solution to remove any copper species, completely. After the usual work up, the residue was chromatographed (1.5 1 hexanes -EtOAc) to yield the title compound as a white solid (952 mg, 64%, several other fractions contained the title compound contaminated with 6-bromo-5,8-di-methoxy-4-methylquinoline) mp 166-168 °C. 

Very recently, the first examples of aryl ethers derived from 2a were reported. While Siv Ar-type reactions with various fluorobenzenes only led to partial etherification, the tetra-p-nitrophenyl ether was obtained with K2CO3/CUO in refluxing pyridine (46% partial cone, 16% 1,2-alternate, see below) . Reaction of 2a or 2na with 2-bromopyridine or 2-bromo-4-methylquinoline in refluxing diphenyl ether in the presence of CSCO3 gave the tetraaryl ether in the 1,3-alternate conformation . 

Methylquinoline (lepidine) (0.1 mole) is added to a stirred suspension of N-bromo-succinimide (0.08 mole) in CC14 at 60°. The mixture is boiled under reflux for 30 min, then filtered hot. The bromo product crystallizes from the filtrate in white crystals (10 g), from which adhering succinimide is removed by thorough washing with water. When dried in a vacuum, the product has m.p. 88-91°. It should be used as soon as possible because it decomposes after a few hours. 

The compound of oxidation state intermediate between that of lupinine and lupininic acid, namely, lupinal, C10H17NO, m.p. 93-96°, has been obtained by Zaboev (72) through the use of chromic anhydride in acetic acid. It appears that the first use of natural lupinine itself as a synthetic tool dates from the work of Bartholomaus and Schaumann, described in two patents (150, 151). Products were characterized which resulted from the condensation of chloro- or bromo-lupinane (derived from lupinine (124, 125)) with ammonia, aniline, methylamine, dimethyl-amine, and piperidine (150). The product resulting from chlorolupinane and piperidine was also described by Clemo and Paper (126). Compounds of possible therapeutic interest were made by the condensation of a halolupinane with 8-amino-2-methylquinoline, 4-amino-2-methyl-quinoline, and by the combination of methylaminolupinane with 4-chloro-... 

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