C-Linked Substituents

N-Linked substituents O-Linked substituents S-Linked substituents C-Linked substituents Reactivity at the Ring Nitrogen Atoms Reduction Oxidation... 

Migrations of C- linked substituents around the ring, on to carbon or nitrogen atoms, are common amongst these compounds. This is the van Alphen-Huttel rearrangement and by it 3H-pyrazoles are converted into 1//-pyrazoles, and 2H-imidazoles are thermally iso-merized into IH-imidazoles. 

C-Linked substituents behave in pyrazoles and indazoles as in other azoles (Section 4.02.3.3). The classical aromatic chemistry of these compounds has given rise to a great number of publications (66AHC(6)347, 67HC(22)1, B-76MI40402), but not to a specific pyrazole chemistry. For this reason, only a brief survey will be given here. 

Owing to the number of different reactions in which they can be used, pyrazole aldehydes and ketones are the most interesting group of C-linked substituents. Transformations of the CHO group into CO2H, CH(OR)2, CH=CHR, etc., and of the COR group into... 

Both 1,2- and 2,1-benzisothiazoles react with electrophiles to give 5- and 7-substituted products (see Section 4.02.3.2). The isothiazole ring has little effect on the normal characteristics of the benzene ring. C-Linked substituents react almost wholly normally, the isothiazole ring having little effect except that phenyl substituents are deactivated (see Section 4.17.2.1). There are, however, considerable differences in the ease of decarboxylation of the carboxylic acids, the 4-isomer being the most stable (see Section 4.02.3.3). 

Electrophilic substitution of the ring hydrogen atom in 1,3,4-oxadiazoles is uncommon. In contrast, several reactions of electrophiles with C-linked substituents of 1,3,4-oxadiazole have been reported. 2,5-Diaryl-l,3,4-oxadiazoles are bromi-nated and nitrated on aryl substituents. Oxidation of 2,5-ditolyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole afforded the corresponding dialdehydes or dicarboxylic acids. 2-Methyl-5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole treated with butyllithium and then with isoamyl nitrite yielded the oxime of 5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazol-2-carbaldehyde. 2-Chloromethyl-5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole under the action of sulfur and methyl iodide followed by amines affords the respective thioamides. 2-Chloromethyl-5-methyl-l,3,4-oxadia-zole and triethyl phosphite gave a product, which underwent a Wittig reation with aromatic aldehydes to form alkenes. Alkyl l,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylates undergo typical reactions with ammonia, amines, and hydrazines to afford amides or hydrazides. It has been shown that 5-amino-l,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylic acids and their esters decarboxylate. 

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