6- Chloro-2- pyrazine

Some of the ring expansion reactions discussed in Section 2.03.3.3.1 can be extended to five-membered heterocycles containing two or more heteroatoms. Reaction of imidazoles and pyrazoles with dichlorocarbene, for example, gives chloropyrimidines together with small amounts of chloro-pyrazines or -pyridazines, and oxidative ring expansion of 1-aminopyrazole with nickel peroxide gives 1,2,3-triazine (this, in fact, constitutes the only known synthesis of the unsubstituted triazine). There are, however, a number of interesting and useful transformations which are unique to five-membered polyheteroatom systems. 

Trichloropyrazine may also be prepared by chlorination of 2,3-dichloro-pyrazine296 or, as previously mentioned, from triketopiperazine,273 296 but A-oxide rearrangement is probably the laboratory method of choice. A further application of A-oxide rearrangement for chloro-pyrazine preparation is taken from the work of Cragoe and his colleagues (Scheme 28).265... 

The marked activation of the iV-oxide function on the chlorine atom of 2-chloropyrazine 4-oxide and 2-ehloro-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-dimethyl 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... 

Ring transformations which give halogeno(fluoro and chloro)pyrazines (492, 496,502) have been discussed in Section 11.9. 

The halogenopyrazines are liquids but the polyhalogeno compounds are usually low melting solids (Table V.3 contains representative literature values). 2-Chloro-pyrazine is a strong smelling liquid and 2-chloromethylpyrazine a lacrimatory oil (679). 

Dipole moments (D, in benzene, unless otherwise specified) of some chloro-pyrazines have been determined as follows 2-chloropyrazine [1.42 (663), 1.38 (773a)] 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (2.07) (733a) 3-chloropyrazine 1-oxide [1.46... 

Treatment of diphenylacetonitrile in toluene with sodium amide and 2-chloro-pyrazine gave 2-(C-cyano-C,C-diphenylmethyl)pyrazine (1021), and 2-vinylpyrazine with phenylacetonitrile and sodium heated at 120-130° for 10 minutes gave 2-(3 -cyano-3 -phenylpropyl)pyrazine (731). 2-Amino-5-bromomethyl-3-cyano-pyrazine with sodium hydride and methyl cyanoacetate in tetrahydrofuran formed the dialkylated product (56) (1031). 2-Amino-3-mercapto-5,6-dimethylpyrazine in methanol with potassium hydroxide and chloroacetonitrile gave 2-amino-3-cyanomethyIthio-5,6-dimethylpyrazine (1229), and 2-carboxypyrazine refluxed with chloroacetonitrile and triethylamine in ethyl acetate for 45 minutes gave the cyanomethyl ester (1317). 2-Hydroxy 5-methyl-3-propylpyrazine with cyanogen halides in aqueous sodium hydroxide-dimethylformamide at 0-5° gave l-cyano-5-methyl-2-oxo-3-propyl-l, 2-dihydropyrazine (1123). 

Hydroxypyrazine-2-carboxylic acid (Fig. 19-35) is a versatile building block in the synthesis of new antituberculous agents, e.g. 5-chloro-pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid esters. The regioselective hydroxylation of pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid is catalyzed by a hydroxylase (E2, E. C. 1.5.1.13). This second enzyme is also in the applied suspended whole cells from Agrobacterium sp. The biomass is separated by ultrafiltration (cutoff 10 kDa) after the biotransformation. 5-Hydroxypyrazine-2-carboxylic acid is precipitated from the permeate by acidification with sulfuric acid to pH 2.5. 

A similar method for making (methylamino)pyrazines is to heat a chloro-pyrazine with potassium hydroxide in A-methylformamide yields are fair to quantitative. In both of these latter reports, the applicability of the relevant procedure to other heterocyclic systems has been investigated. ... 

Carbamic carboxylic anhydrides, such as 3,5-diamino-6-chloro-pyrazine-carboxylic N,N-diphenylcarbamic anhydride, and their viny-... 

N-Amidinopyrazine carboxamides. The synthesis and biological activity of a great number of compounds of this type were described in a series of papers between 1965 and 1 68 [159—162]. The first of these described the diuretic activity in adrenalectomised DOC A-treated rats of a series of A -amidino-3-amino-6-halopyrazine carboxamides. In the second paper, it was discovered that the introduction of a 5-amino group into the pyrazine ring increased the diuretic potency. One of the compounds, amiloride (A -amidino-3,5-diamino-6-chloro-pyrazine carboxamide (Figure 1.13)) later became widely used in clinical practice, particularly in combination with other diuretics. Its use in combination with diuretics acting more proximally in the nephron is related to the prevention of potassium loss which results when an excess sodium load is delivered to the distal tubule. Thus, amiloride is a potassium-sparing diuretic [163]. 

In the case of phenazine, substitution in the hetero ring is clearly not possible without complete disruption of the aromatic character of the molecule. Like pyrazine and quinoxa-line, phenazine is very resistant towards the usual electrophilic reagents employed in aromatic substitution reactions and substituted phenazines are generally prepared by a modification of one of the synthetic routes employed in their construction from monocyclic precursors. However, a limited range of substitution reactions has been reported. Thus, phenazine has been chlorinated in acid solution with molecular chlorine to yield the 1-chloro, 1,4-dichloro, 1,4,6-trichloro and 1,4,6,9-tetrachloro derivatives, whose gross structures have been proven by independent synthesis (53G327). 

It would appear that this type of addition may not be confined to the addition of NH2 in liquid ammonia, since it has been observed that treatment of 2-chloro-3-dichloromethyl-pyrazine with an excess of methoxide results in the introduction of a methoxy group into the 6-position of the pyrazine ring (Scheme 9) (68TL5931). This reaction is best rationalized in terms of addition of the methoxide ion at the 6-position, followed by loss of chloride ion from the dichloromethyl side chain. 

Pyrazine, l,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)-l,4-dihydro-synthesis, 3, 178 Pyrazine, 3-s-butyl-2-methoxy-occurrenoe, 3, 193 Pyrazine, chloro-reactions... 

H-Pyrido[2,l-i]purine-9-carboxylic acid, 7-oxo-methyl ester, 5, 566 Pyrido[2,3-6]pyrazine, amino-nucleophilic attack, 3, 253 Pyrido[2,3-h]pyrazine, 6-chloro-reactions... 

The quaternization of pyrazine compounds has not been extensively studied, and, therefore, a detailed discussion of the effect of substituents is not possible. Recently Cheeseman has shown, from spectroscopic evidence, that 2-amino- and 2-diethylamino-pyrazine (50, Y = NH2 and NEt2) quatemize at N-4, although protonation occurs at position-1. Other substituted pyrazines from which quaternary salts of structure 51 are formed include 2-chloro- and 2-... 

Comparison of the ortho and para indirect deactivation in 155 and 156 with that in 151 and 152 would reveal the relative effectiveness of the two effects and the influence of the ring-position. Additional examples of deactivation are ortho indirect in 2-chloro-6-methoxy-pyrazine ortho direct in 4-chloro-5-methoxypyrimidine para direct in 2-chloro-5-methoxypyrimidine ortho and para indirect in the... 

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