Chloropyrazines

Ring substituents show enhanced reactivity towards nucleophilic substitution, relative to the unoxidized systems, with substituents a to the fV-oxide showing greater reactivity than those in the /3-position. In the case of quinoxalines and phenazines the degree of labilization of a given substituent is dependent on whether the intermediate addition complex is stabilized by mesomeric interactions and this is easily predicted from valence bond considerations. 2-Chloropyrazine 1-oxide is readily converted into 2-hydroxypyrazine 1-oxide (l-hydroxy-2(l//)-pyrazinone) (55) on treatment with dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide (63G339), whereas both 2,3-dichloropyrazine and 3-chloropyrazine 1-oxide are stable under these conditions. This reaction is of particular importance in the preparation of pyrazine-based hydroxamic acids which have antibiotic properties. 

Direct halogenation of quinoxaline appears to be of limited value but pyrazine may be chlorinated in the vapor phase to give monochloropyrazine at 400 °C or at lower temperatures under catalytic conditions 72AHC(14)99, and at higher temperatures tetra-chloropyrazine formation occurs in high yields. Mention has already been made of direct chlorination (see Section 2.14.2.1) of phenazine. 

Nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine atom in 2-chloropyrazine and 2-chloroquinoxa-lines has been effected with a variety of nucleophiles, including ammonia and amines, oxygen nucleophiles such as alkoxides, sodium azide, hydrazine, sulfur containing nucleophiles, cyanide, etc., and reactions of this type are typical of the group (see Chapter 2.02). 

Dihaloquinoxalines are extremely reactive and both halogen atoms are replaceable, on occasions explosively (59RTC5), whereas in the case of dihalopyrazines, and tri- or tetra-halopyrazines, there is frequently a considerable difference in reactivity of the halogen atoms. When 2,3-dichloropyrazine is treated with ammonia at 130 °C, only one chlorine atom is displaced, giving 2-amino-3-chloropyrazine (66FES799). 

The progression from hydroxypyrazines/quinoxalines through the halo derivatives to the amines is a logical sequence in that, for practical purposes, this is the best method of synthesis of the amino compounds (see preceding Section). The ammonolysis proceeds most easily in the case of fluoro compounds. Fluoropyrazine reacts with aqueous ammonia at room temperature, whereas the reaction with chloropyrazine requires higher temperature and pressure. 

Piperidine in weakly polar solvents at 75.2°. The solvent was piperidine for 2-chloropyridine and toluene for 2-chloropyrazine the comparison is not correct but is justified by evidence given in Section III. 

Quinoxalinyl, 4-cinnolinyl, and 1-phthalazinyl derivatives, which are all activated by a combination of induction and resonance, have very similar kinetic characteristics (Table XV, p. 352) in ethoxylation and piperidination, but 2-chloroquinoxaline is stated (no data) to be more slowly phenoxylated. In nucleophilic substitution of methoxy groups with ethoxy or isopropoxy groups, the quinoxaline compound is less reactive than the cinnoline and phthalazine derivatives and more reactive than the quinoline and isoquinoline analogs. 2-Chloroquinoxaline is more reactive than its monocyclic analog, 2-chloropyrazine, with thiourea or with piperidine (Scheme VI, p. 350). 

Besides furo[2,3-d]pyrimidines, 6-substituted 5H-pyrrolo[2,3-h]pyrazines have also been obtained in a microwave-promoted one-pot process starting from N-mesyl protected 2-amino-3-chloropyrazine (Scheme 60) [74]. The... 

Buron et al, published the synthesis of botryllazine derivatives containing a pyrazine core [84]. Scheme 42 describes the synthesis of these compounds. Chloropyrazine 160 was employed as the starting material for the synthesis of the pyrazine chalcone analog 161. 2-Chloro-3-tributylstannylpyrazine 162 was the key intermediate and was coupled with acid chloride 163 to produce the ketone 164. Following protection and subsequent reaction with 165, pyrazine 166 was generated. Oxidation, deprotection, and demetallation produced the pyrazine of interest 161. 

The vinyl triflate of Komfeld s ketone has been subjected to Heck reactions with methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, and methyl 3-(Af-rerf-butoxycarbonyl-lV-methyl)amino-2-methylenepropionate leading to a formal synthesis of lysergic acid [259]. A similar Heck reaction between l-(phenylsulfonyl)indol-5-yl triflate and dehydroalanine methyl ester was described by this research group [260]. Chloropyrazines undergo Heck couplings with both indole and 1-tosylindole, and these reactions are discussed in the pyrazine Chapter [261], Rajeswaran and Srinivasan described an interesting arylation of bromomethyl indole 229 with arenes [262]. Subsequent desulfurization and hydrolysis furnishes 2-arylmethylindoles 230. Bis-indole 231 was also prepared in this study. 

Ohta s group investigated the heteroaryl Heck reaction of thiophenes and benzothiophenes with aryl halides [127] and chloropyrazines [128]. Addition of the electrophiles invariably took place at C(2) as exemplified by the formation of arylbenzothiophene 156 from the reaction of benzothiophene and p-bromobenzaldehyde [127]. As expected, the heteroaryl Heck reaction of 2-thienylnitrile, an activated thiophene, with iodobenzene afforded the arylation product 157 [129],... 

Ohta s group coupled aryl bromides such as 2-bromonitrobenzene with benzofuran [85]. The heteroaryl Heck reaction took place at the more electron-rich C(2) position of benzofuran. They later described the heteroaryl Heck reactions of chloropyrazines with both furan and benzofuran [86],... 

Oxazoles and benzoxazoles are viable participants in the heteroaryl Heck reactions. In their monumental work published in 1992, Ohta and colleagues demonstrated that oxazoles and benzoxazoles, along with other rc-sufficient aromatic heterocycles such as furans, benzofurans, thiophenes, benzothiophenes, pyrroles, thiazole and imidazoles, are acceptable recipient partners for the heteroaryl Heck reactions of chloropyrazines [22b]. Therefore, treatment of 2-chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (27) with oxazole led to regioselective addition at C(5), giving rise to adduct 28. By contrast, a similar reaction between 2-chloro-3,6-diisobutylpyrazine (29) and benz[fc]oxazole took place at C(2) exclusively to afford pyrazinylbezoxazole 30. 

Ohta s group thoroughly studied the heteroaryl Heck reactions of chloropyrazines and jt-electron-rich heteroaryls [42-44], The substitution occurred at the electron-rich C(5) position of the imidazole ring for the heteroaryl Heck reaction of 2-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine and N-methylimidazole. 

With palladium catalysis, both 2,6-dichloropyrazine 3 and chloropyrazine N-oxide 5 were methylated using trimethylaluminum to give adducts 4 and 6, respectively [7,8]. 

The Stille reaction of 2-chloro-3,6-diisopropylpyrazine (7) and 2-chloro-3,6-diisopropylpyrazine 4-oxide (9) with tetra(p-methoxyphenyl)stannane (readily prepared in situ from the corresponding Grignard reagent and SnCU) led to the corresponding arylation products 8 and 10, respectively [9]. Additional Stille coupling reactions of chloropyrazines and their N-oxides have been carried out with tetraphenyltin [10] and aryl-, heteroaryl-, allyl- and alkylstannanes [11]. 

Intriguingly, the Stille coupling of quaternary pyridylstannane 12 with 2-chloropyrazine (13) proceeded to afford adduct 14 [12]. A-Methylated 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine 12 was easily prepared by refluxing 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine (11) with methyl tosylate in EtOAc. By contrast, only 29% yield of the coupling adduct was isolated from the Stille reaction of 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine A-oxide and 13. 

The Stille coupling of tetraethyltin and chloropyrazine 15 led to ethylpyrazine 16, which was an important intermediate for preparing quinuclidinylpyrazine derivatives as muscarinic agonists [13]. In this particular case, the reductive elimination took place faster than (3-hydride elimination. 

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