4- Chloropyridine, reactions

Since these early studies, numerous derivatives of 2-chloro- and 2-bromo ia, 672 and 4-chloro- and 4-bromo-pyridine 73 have been converted into amino- or alkylamino-pyridines under conditions differing little from those mentioned above. Modifications which have been used include the addition of copper sulphate as a catalyst a, 672a reaction in the presence of pyridine 64 and also, in the case of 4-chloropyridine, reaction with primary and secondary aliphatic amines in benzene 4 at 140-180 . The qualitative data from these numerous examples show the effect of other substituents upon 2- and 4-halogen atoms to be as expected. GarboxyM oa, 675, 9i8 and nitro-groups24ia markedly augment reactivity, and in a compound such as 2-chloro-3,5-dinitropyridine, much milder conditions than usual can be used for amination e ... 

Pyrroles may be ring-expanded to pyridines in reactions having a greater academic than practical interest. Treatment of pyrrole with chloroform and sodium ethoxide (in effect, with dichlorocarbene, CCl2) gives a low yield of 3-chloropyridine [626-60-8]. A much better yield (33%) is obtained if chloroform and pyrrole are heated together in the vapor phase at 550°C some 2-chloropyridine (17) is also formed (71). 

The Ciamician-Dennstedt reaction involves the reaction of a pyrrole (1) with the carbene generated from chloroform and a base to provide a 3-chloropyridine (2, Scheme 8.3.1). 

Ciamician and Dennstedt reacted the potassium salt of pyrrole with chloroform in ether and isolated, after much purification, 3-chloropyridine, which was confirmed by crystallization with platinum. While the pyrrole salt can be used as the base, the chloroform carbene is typically formed with an alkali alcohol. Forty years later, Robinson and co-workers made 3-chloroquinolines from indoles using the Ciamician-Dennstedt reaction. ... 

Fluoro and 3- or 5-nitro-2-chloropyridine A-oxides may be converted to the corresponding l-benzoyloxy-2-pyridones by reaction with benzoic acid alone. 

Carbon tetrachloride was also found to react with pyrryl potassium to give 3-chloropyridine, however the mechanism is obscure and would justify further investigation. In a preparatively useful reaction, pyrrole and chloroform in the vapor phase at 500-550° gave 3-chloro-pyridine (33%) and a little 2-chloropyridine (2-5%). No interconversion of the isomers occurred under these conditions, though pyrolytic rearrangement of N-alkylpyrrole to 3-substituted pyridines is considered to involve 2-alkylpyrroles as intermediates. There is some independent evidence that dichlorocarbene is formed in the vapor phase decomposition of chloroform. ... 

Under conditions more similar to those of the Reimer-Tiemann reaction 3-bromopyridine was obtained from pyrrole and bromo-form. Treatment of pyrrole with chloroform and aqueous alkali gave pyrrole-2-aldehyde curiously, the formation of 3-chloropyridine under these conditions does not appear to have been reported, in spite of being frequently quoted. However, indole gave both indole-3-aldehyde and 3-chloroquinoline under these conditions [Eq. (10)]. 

The behavior of the chloropyridines and their nitro-substituted derivatives is apparently similar, the 2-chloro compounds having less tendency to show autocatalytic behavior than the 4-chloro analogues with a given nucleophile. For 4-chloropyridines the reaction may be further complicated by self-quaternization. ... 

The data show that in some cases basicity has a strong influence on reactivity. For example, the reaction of 2-chloropyridine derivatives with piperidine is about 3000 times as fast as that with pyridine the basicity change involved is in the order of 6 pA units. However, piperidine is only 4 times as reactive as morpholine with 2- or 4-chloropyrimidine as the substrate, although -dpAo in these cases is still fairly large, 2.5 units. Furthermore, even the qualitative correlation sometimes fails, and aniline is more reactive than pyridine in contrast to the expectations from their basicities. 

The incompleteness of the other data precludes generalization. However, a few apparent inconsistencies may be indicated to stimulate further research. Insertion of another aza group into 2-chloroquinoline causes the reactivity sequence o >m (reaction with piperidine) or, even, o reaction with CgHsO"), involving only relatively small factors and, in any case, in sharp contrast with the above-mentioned effects on 2-chloropyridine as a substrate. Further, meta-aza activation in all cases involving the ethoxide ion is fairly strong suggest-... 

By treating 3-bromo- (27, X = Br) or 3-chloropyridine (27, X = Cl) with lithium piperidide (2.2 equivalents) and piperidine (2.8 equivalents) in boiling ether, mixtures of 3- (29, Y = NC5H10) and 4-piper-idinopyridine (34, Y = NC5H10) were obtained in 85-90% total yield. In both reactions the ratio of the 3- to 4-piperidino compounds was 48 52. Support for the hetaryne mechanism as the sole pathway for these reactions comes from the fact that increasing the amounts of lithium piperidide and piperidine to 5 and 10 equivalents, respectively, scarcely changed the composition of the reaction products. If addition-elimination had occurred concomitantly with reaction via the hetaryne, more of the 3-piperidino compound would have been formed, since the reconversion of the hthium intermediate 30 into 27 by piperidine would be accelerated by the enhancement of the concentration of this substance. 

None of the 3-halogenopyridines yield 2-piperidinopyridine. This substance was obtained as the only product from the reaction of 2-fluoropyridine (24, X = F) with lithium piperidide under the same conditions in 97% yield. Finally, it was found that 4-chloropyridine (32, X = Cl) was converted in 95% total yield into a mixture of 0.4% of 3-piperidino- (29, Y = NC5H10) and 99.6% of 4-piperidino-pyridine (34, Y = NCsHio)- Thus, in contrast to the amination with potassium amide, 4-chloropyridine reacts with lithium piperidide almost exclusively via the addition product 33 (X = Cl, Y = NC5H10). 

Pyridyne (26) has been shown to exist by trapping it with furan. It must be considered to be an intermediate in the reaction of 3-bromo-2-chloropyridine (49) with lithium amalgam because in the presence of furan a small amount (2%) of quinoline (50) is formed. ... 

The scope of heteroaryne or elimination-addition type of substitution in aromatic azines seems likely to be limited by its requirement for a relatively unactivated leaving group, for an adjacent ionizable substituent or hydrogen atom, and for a very strong base. However, reaction via the heteroaryne mechanism may occur more frequently than is presently appreciated. For example, it has been recently shown that in the reaction of 4-chloropyridine with lithium piperidide, at least a small amount of aryne substitution accompanies direct displacement. The ratio of 4- to 3-substitution was 996 4 and, therefore, there was 0.8% or more pyridyne participation. Heteroarynes are undoubtedly subject to orientation and steric effects which frequently lead to the overwhelming predominance of... 

Chapman and co-workershave shown that, in the reactions of nitro-2-chloropyridines with piperidine, aryl amines, or pyridine bases, a 5-nitro group activates more than a 3-nitro group (cf. Table VII, p. 276). 

The general principle that activation of para substitution is greater than of ortho substitution holds true also for an azinium moiety in the one instance studied. Thus, the activation energy for the 4-chloropyridine quaternary salt 280 (Table II, line 9) is 1 kcal lower than that for the 2-isomer (line 5). The rate relation (2- > 4-isomer) is controlled by the entropies of activation in this reaction due to electrostatic attraction in the transition state (281). The reverse rate relation (4- > 2-position) is predicted for aminations of such quaternary compounds due to electrostatic repulsion (282) plus the difference in E. A kinetic study of the 2- and 4-pyridine quaternary salts... 

Halopyridines undergo self-quaternization on standing while the less reactive 2-halo isomers do not. However, more is involved here than the relative reactivity at the ring-positions. The reaction rate will depend on the relative riucleophilicity of the attack-ing pyridine-nitrogens (4-chloropyridine is more basic) and on the much lower steric hindrance at the 4-position. Related to this self-quatemization are the reactions of pyridine and picolines as nucleophiles with 4-chloro- and 2-chloro-3-nitropyridines. The 4-isomer (289) is. again the more reactive by 10-30-fold (Table VII, p. 276). 

The kinetic comparison of amination of the chloropyridines is incomplete due to the intervention of acid catalysis. The reaction of 2-chloropyridine with piperidine shows a constant rate coefficient as the reaction proceeds to completion, but, with the less basic morpholine, a rising coefficient indicative of acid catalysis is observed. 4-Chloropyridine exhibits a rising rate coefficient even with piperidine. ... 

When an azine-nitrogen and a leaving group are in the 2,3-relation to each other in monoaza- and polyaza-naphthalenes, there is a dramatic effect on the reaction rate (for 3-chloroisoquLnoline lO -lO -fold less than for its 1-chloro isomer and for 2-chloroquinoline 200-400-fold less than for 2-chloropyridine) due to restrictions imposed on the resonance stabilization of charge in the transition state by the bicyclic system ... 

The question of the occurrence of cine or aryne substitution in some of these reactions has been raised but not answered adequately. The normal product, 2-methoxynaphthalene was shown to be formed from 2-chloronaphthalene and methoxide ion, and the normal 6- and 8-piperidinoquinolines were proved to be products of piperidino-debromination of 6- and 8-bromoquinolines, all in unspecified yield. More highly activated compounds were then assumed not to react via the aryne mechanism. Even if the major product had been characterized, the occurrence of a substantial or predominant amount of aryne reaction may escape notice when strong orientation or steric effects lead to formation of the normal displacement product from the aryne. A substantial amoimt of concurrent aryne reaction may also escape detection if it yields an amount of cine-substituted material easily removed in purification or if the entire reaction mixture is not chromatographed Kauffman and Boettcher have demonstrated that activated compounds such as 4-chloropyridine do indeed react partially via the aryne mechanism (Section I,C,1). 

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