5- Cyano-2,7-dimethyl triazolo pyridine

Heath and Rees corrected the earlier conclusions of Potts et al. (66JOC265) and Sai et al. [81IJC(B)10] who had reacted 1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in boiling toluene and benzene. The latter believed that 3-substituted triazolopyridines 209 and 210 were the products. Heath and Rees repeated the experiments in refluxing benzene and in refluxing toluene both in the presence and absence of 5% palladium-on-charcoal, and showed that under all sets of conditions 3-cyano-4-oxo-4f/-pyrido[l,2-a]pyrimidine-2-carboxylate 212, 5-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole-3,4-dicarboxylate 213, and an adduct 211 were isolated from the complex reaction mixtures in 20%, 20%, and 1% yields, respectively (82CC1280). When the reaction was carried out in methanol, only 3-cyano-4-oxo-4//-pyrido[ 1,2-a]pyrimidine-2-carboxylate 212 was obtained... 

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