2-Chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine

Palladium chemistry involving heterocycles has its unique characteristics stemming from the heterocycles inherently different structural and electronic properties in comparison to the corresponding carbocyclic aryl compounds. One example illustrating the striking difference in reactivity between a heteroarene and a carbocyclic arene is the heteroaryl Heck reaction (vide infra, see Section 1.4). We define a heteroaryl Heck reaction as an intermolecular or an intramolecular Heck reaction occurring onto a heteroaryl recipient. Intermolecular Heck reactions of carbocyclic arenes as the recipients are rare [12a-d], whereas heterocycles including thiophenes, furans, thiazoles, oxazoles, imidazoles, pyrroles and indoles, etc. are excellent substrates. For instance, the heteroaryl Heck reaction of 2-chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (1) and benzoxazole occurred at the C(2) position of benzoxazole to elaborate pyrazinylbenzoxazole 2 [12e]. 

In contrast, thiazoles and benzothiazoles are suitable recipients for the heteroaryl Heck reaction. Treatment of 2-chloro-3,6-diisobutylpyrazine (103) with thiazole led to regioselective addition at C(5), giving rise to adduct 104 [57]. A similar reaction between 2-chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (105) and benzo[ >]thiazole took place at C(2) exclusively to afford pyrazinylbenzothiazole 106 [57]. 

Along with some disubstituted furan 59, mono-arylation product 58 was isolated when 2-chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (57) and furan were refluxed in the presence of Pd(Ph3P)4 and KOAc. In the case of 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (23) and thiophene, monothienylpyrazine 60 was the sole product. When 2-chloro-3,6-diisobutylpyrazine was used as substrate, 9% of the disubstituted thiophene was detected. Analogous to the couplings with furan and thiophene, the heteroaryl... 

Chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (119, R = H) gave 2,5-diethyl-3-methylpyrazine (118) [Me3Al, Pd(PPh3)4, dioxane—C6H14, A, reflux, 2 h 88%] 280 2,5-dichloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (119, R = Cl) gave 2,5-diethyl-3,6-dimethyl-pyrazine (120) (likewise but reflux, 4 h 93%) 280 and many homologues and their TV-oxides were made similarly.280,282... 

Chloro-5,6-diethylpyrazine 1-oxide (219) (K2S2Os, H2S04, 20°C, 24 h 84%) 1250 2-chloro-3-isobutyl-6-methylpyrazine 1-oxide (220) (likewise 78%) 295 and 2-fluoropyrazine 1-oxide (likewise 40%).276... 

Chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine 1-oxide 2-Chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine 4-oxide... 

Q-(p-Toluenesulfonyloxyiinino)malononitrile (104), when treated with malono-nitrile in basic conditions, has been shown to give salts of l,l,3,3-tetracyano-2-azapropenide (105), which with concentrated sulfuric acid in methanol gave 2-amino-3,5-dicyano-6-methoxypyrazine (106) (484) and with hydrochloric acid in acetone gave 2-amino-6-chloro-3,5-dicyanopyrazine (485, 486). Catalytic cyclization of 2-(2 -aminobutylamino)butanol with Raney nickel has been found to give a mixture of 2,5-diethylpiperazine (25% yield) and 2,5-diethylpyrazine (8%) (487). 

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