2- Chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazin-4-oxide

Chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 4-oxide (224) and the 1,4-dioxide [NaB03, AcOH, 80°C, 24 h 56% and a trace, respectively note the difference in orientation of the product (224) from that (220) obtained from an homologous substrate using persulfate].208... 

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

The marked activation of the Ar-oxide function on the chlorine atom of 2-chloropyrazine 4-oxide and 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 4-oxide is also demonstrated by the milder conditions under which these compounds react with ammonia and amines compared with chloro-pyrazine and 2-chloro-3,6-dimethyI pyrazine, respectively. Although 2-chloropyrazine 4-oxide undergoes the expected displacement reaction with ammonia on heating at 115°-120° for 2.5 hours, reaction at 140° for 16 hours gives 2,3-diaminopyrazine, possibly as a result of an addition-elimination reaction on the initially formed 2-amino-pyrazine 4-oxide (Scheme 47).417... 

Akita and Ohta disclosed one of the earliest Sonogashira reactions of chloropyrazines and their A-oxides [24, 25]. The union of 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (23) and phenylacetylene led to 2,5-dimethyl-3-phenylethynylpyrazine (29). Subsequent Lindlar reduction of adduct 29 then delivered (Z)-2,5-dimethyl-3-styrylpyrazine (30), a natural product isolated from mandibular gland secretion of the Argentine ants, Iridomyrmex humilis. 

Akita and Ohta revealed one of the early Heck reactions of halopyrazines [23]. They reacted 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (23) with styrene in the presence of Pd(Ph3P)4 and KOAc using A(//-dimethylacetamide (DMA) as solvent to make ( )-2,5-dimethyl-3-styrylpyrazine (51). This methodology was later extended to 2-chloropyrazine IV-oxides although the yields were modest (28-38%) [37]. 

Chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (124) gave 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (125) [Et2Zn, NiCl2.(Ph2PCH2)2CH2, THF, A, 20°C, 3 h 71%] 55 2-ethyl-3,6-di-methylpyrazine 1-oxide (126) (46%) was made similarly 1594 and analogues likewise.551594... 

Chloro-5,6-dimethylpyrazine 4-oxide (49) gave a mixture of 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dimethylpyrazine (50) and 2-chloro-5-chloromethyl-6-methylpyrazine (51) (POCl3, reflux, 30 min 38 and 19%, respectively, after separation).1272... 

Chloro-5-isobutylpyrazine 6-Chloro-5-isobutyl-2-pyrazinecarbothioamide 6-Chloro-5-isobutyl-2-pyrazinecarboxamide 2-Chloro-3-isobutylpyrazine 4-oxide 2-Chloro-5-isopentyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 2-Chloro-3-isopropenyl-6-isopropyl-5-methoxypyrazine 5-Chloro-6-isopropenyl-3-isopropyl-l-methyl-2(177)-pyrazinone... 

Chloro-3-isopropyl-5,6-dimethylpyrazine 2-Chloro-3-isopropyl-5,6-diphenylpyrazine 2-Chloro-3-isopropyl-5-methylpyrazine 2-Chloro-3-isopropyl-6-methylpyrazine 2-Chloro-6-isopropyl-3-methylpyrazine 2-Chloro-3-isopropyl-6-methylpyrazine 1 -oxide 2-Chloro-6-isopropyl-3-methylpyrazine 1-oxide 2-Chloro-3-isopropylpyrazine... 

A number of piperazine-2,5-diones (a-amino acid anhydrides ) has been converted to pyrazines by the action of phosphorus halides. Baxter and Spring (312) first described the conversion of isoleucine anhydride (45) with phosphoryl chloride to 2,5-di-s-butyl-3,6-dichloropyrazine (46, X = Cl) and 2,5-di-s-butyl-3-chloropyrazine (46, X = H), and of DL-alanine anhydride (47) similary to 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (48, X = Q) and 3from alanine anhydride does not involve an oxidation step, whereas the formation of 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine involves the oxidation of an intermediate dihydropyrazine derivative. Treatment of DL-alanine anhydride with phosphoryl chloride in the presence of a tertiary base (dimethylaniline) gave only the monochloro derivative the intermediate dichlorodihydropyrazine presumably loses hydrogen chloride and gives the stable aromatic 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine. 

Ramsay and Spring (548) found that treatment of a-chloro-a-hydroxyimino-acetone (13) with sodium hydrogen sulfite gave the bisulfite derivative of pyruvo-hydroxamic acid, which after purification from sodium hydrogen sulfite condensed with aminoacetone to give 2-hydroxy-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (14). 

Dialkylpyrazines as their mono- and di-A -oxides are smoothly converted by phosphoryl chloride into 2-chloro- and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dialkylpyrazines, respectively (740). Thus 2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide with phosphoryl chloride gives 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine in 85% yield (612, 740), but 2,5-dimethylpyrazine di-A -oxide gave a low yield of 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine which was not increased when sulfuryl chloride was used in place of phosphoryl chloride. Similar... 

Matsuura and co-workers (756) have reexamined the reactions of the A -oxides of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine and found that 2,5-dimethylpyrazine di-A -oxide (29) when heated with phosphoryl chloride at 160° gave 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (6%) (30), 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (5%) (31), and 5-chloromethyl-2-methylpyrazine 1 -oxide (9%) (32). In addition small amounts of other chlorinated products, 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-5-methylpyrazine (33) and 2,5-bischloromethyl-pyrazine (34), were identified. These authors also examined the action of p-tosyl chloride, methane sulfonyl chloride, and mixtures of phosphoryl chloride and concentrated sulfuric acid, but state that these did not give good results. Pyrazine 1-oxide and phosphoryl chloride have been shown to give 2reaction conditions it gave 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (757). Pyrazine 1,4-dioxide and benzenesulfonyl chloride also gave a low yield of 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (758). 

Dimethoxy(or diethoxy)-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1,4-dioxide with phosphoryl chloride have been shown to give 2,5-bis(chloromethyl)-3,6-dimethoxy(or diethoxy)-pyrazine (756), 3-ethoxy-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide gave 2-chloro-5-ethoxy-... 

Comparative A -oxide activation was likewise observed when other amines such as hexylamine, aniline, benzylamine, piperidine, and dimethylamine were used. It was also noted, in every example studied, that amination of the chloropyrazine A -oxide or alkylchloropyrazine 7V-oxide at elevated temperatures in a sealed vessel gave mixtures containing greater or lesser amounts of deoxygenated halogeno-pyrazine or aminopyrazine (921). Similar enhanced activation by theTV-oxide group was observed when 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine and its 1-oxide in reaction with various amines were compared, although dialkyl substitution further retarded overall aminolysis (793,921). 

Reactions of C-alkoxypyrazine A-oxides with phosphoryl chloride have been described in Section V.IG (756, 817, 838, 872, 881). For example, 3-ethoxy-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide refluxed with phosphoryl chloride for 10 minutes gave 2-chloro-5-ethoxy-3,6-dimethylpyrazine and 2-chloromethyl-3-ethoxy-5-methyl-pyrazine (872). 

Methyl-2-oxo-l, 2-dihydropyrazine with phosphorus pentasulfide in pyridine at reflux was converted into l-methyl-2-thio-l,2-dihydropyrazine (18) (821,1100), and 3-chloropyrazine 1-oxide with sodium hydrogen sulflde in ethanol at room temperature gave 3-mercaptopyrazine 1-oxide (19) (1035). Whereas 3-chloro-2,5-dimethyipyrazine 1-oxide reacted slowly with thiourea in ethanol, and the use of water in place of ethanol caused some increase in reaction rate, the reaction in 2A sulfuric acid at reflux for 30 minutes gave 3-mercapto-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (85%), and 3-mercapto-2-methylpyrazine 1-oxide was prepared similarly (905). 

Aminopyrazine was oxidized by hydrogen peroxide in acetic acid at 20° to 3-aminopyrazine 1 -oxide and at 50° for 15 hours to 2-aininopyrazine 1,4-dioxide (51%) (also obtained by similar oxidation of 3-aminopyrazine 1-oxide) (1189). m-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid was also used for the oxidation of 2-aminopyrazine to its 1-oxide (1258). The following aminopyrazine TV-oxides have been prepared by oxidation (reagent and conditions) 2-amino-3-methoxycarbonylpyrazine 1-oxide (m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in chloroform at reflux) (880, 1222) 2-amino-5-chloro-3-methoxycarbonyl(and methylcarbamoyl)pyrazine 1-oxide (m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in chloroform at reflux) (1222) 2-amino-5-bromo-3-methoxycarbonylpyrazine 1-oxide (wperoxyacetic acid) (906) 2-amino-3-bromo-5,6-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (peroxyacetic acid) (907) and 2,3-bis(pyridin-2 -yl)pyrazine 1,4-dioxide (hydrogen peroxide in sulfuric acid at room temperature) (754). 

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