2.5- Dimethyl pyridine

As early as 1889 Walker (320), using samples of thiazole, 2,4-dimethylthiazoie, pyridine, and 2,6-dimethylpyridine obtained from Hantzsch s laboratory, measured the electrical conductivity of their chlorhydrates and compared them with those of salts of other weak bases, especially quinoline and 2-methylquinoline. He observed the following order of decreasing proton affinity (basicity) quinaldine>2,6-dimethyl-pyridine>quinoline>pyridine>2,4-dimethylthiazole> thiazole, and concluded that the replacement of a nuclear H-atom by a methyl group enhanced the basicity of the aza-aromatic substrates. 

Phosphoryl chloride Carbon disulflde, A,A-dimethylformamide, 2,5-dimethylpyrrole, 2,6-dimethyl-pyridine 1-oxide, dimethylsulfoxide, water, zinc... 

The contents of the flask while still hot are poured into a 30-cm. evaporating dish and the alcohol is evaporated on a steam bath. The dry salt is pulverized and thoroughly mixed with 390 g. of calcium oxide, placed in a 2-I. copper retort (Note 3), and heated with the full flame of a Meker burner. The distillate is placed in a distilling flask and heated on a steam bath all material distilling under 90 is removed and discarded. The residue is then allowed to stand over solid potassium hydroxide for twelve hours and is finally fractionated. The dimethyl-pyridine distils at i42-i44°/743 mm. The yield is 35-36 g. or 62-64 per cent of the theoretical amount based on the 3,5-dicarb-ethoxy-2,6-dimethylpyridine, or 30-36 per cent based on the original ethyl acetoacetate. 

N-silylated imines 509 react with the Li salts of tosylmethylisonitriles to give 4,5-disubstituted imidazoles in moderate yields [93]. Acetylation of N-trimethylsilyl imines 509 with acetyl chloride and triethylamine affords 72-80% of the aza-dienes 510 these undergo readily Diels-Alder reactions, e.g. with maleic anhydride at 24 °C to give 511 [94] or with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give dimethyl pyridine-3,4-dicarboxylates [94] (Scheme 5.29). 

To a stirred suspension of N-(2,6-dimethyl-4-oxopyridin-l-yl)pyridin-ium tetrafluoborate (0.58 g, 2 mmol) in dry acetonitrile (20 ml) under nitrogen was added trimethyl phosphite (0.25 g, 2 mmol), followed by finely divided sodium iodide (0.30 g, 2 mmol). After 1 h at 25°C, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure, and water (20 ml) was added. The mixture was extracted with methylene chloride (3 x 15 ml), and the extracts were dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated under reduced pressure. The residue was dissolved in ethyl acetate (40 ml), heated at reflux for 4 h, evaporated under reduced pressure, and eluted on an alumina column (grade 1, neutral) with chloroform to yield pure dimethyl pyridin-4-ylphosphonate (0.36 g, 96%) of melting point (mp) 139 to 140°C. 

To probe the possible role of surface hydroxyl groups, addition of 2,6 dimethyl pyridine was conducted, expected to block those sites. It was shown that with increased addition of 2,6 dimethyl pyridine, the water-gas shift rate was suppressed, as shown in Table 125. 

It was strongly suggested by the fact that 2,6 dimethyl pyridine detrimentally impacts the activity that surface hydroxyl groups participate in the water-gas shift reaction. 

Table 125 Impact of added 2,6 dimethyl pyridine on CO conversion (180 °C) during water gas shift using a feed containing 57.5 cm3/h CO and 921.5 cm3/h using 0.5 g catalyst as a function of level added523 ...

Catalyst Moles 2,6 dimethyl pyridine added CO conversion... 

Aromatic N-containing heterocycles (pyridine, imidazole etc.,) and their alkyl derivatives represent an important group of products and they have received considerable attention because of their various applications. For instance, methyl pyridines (picolines) and dimethyl pyridines (lutidines) are a class of industrially valuable compounds for the production of dyes and fine chemicals [108]. Sreekumar et al [109] reported pyridine methylation to 3-picolines over Zni xCoxFe204 spinel systems at reaction temperature between 325 and 425°C. The... 

Electron transfer reduction of pyridines in both acid and alkaline solution generates the protonated radical-anion. This rapidly accepts a further electron and a proton to give a mixture of dihydropyridines. Enamine structures in these dihydro-pyridines can tautomerise to the imine, which is more readily reduced than the original pyridine molecule. Further reaction of the 1,4-dihydropyridine leads to piperidine while reduction of the t, 2-dihydropyridine leads to a tetrahydropyridine in which the alkene group cannot tautomerise to the imine and which is not therefore reduced to the piperidine stage. The reaction sequence is illustrated for 2,6-dimethyl-pyridine 18 which yields the thermodynamically favoured cis-2,6-dimethylpiperidine in which the two alkyl substituents occupy equatorial conformations. 

With 2,4-dimethyl-pyridine and -quinoline it is possible to achieve selective alkylation or acylation at either position. Although it might be expected that the greater acidity of... 

A good example of template copolycondensation has been described by Ogata et al Copolycondensation of 2,6-dimethyl pyridine dicarboxylate and dimethyl adipate with hexamethylene diamine was carried out in the presence of polysaccharide - Pullulane (mol. weight 30,000) used as a template. The reaction was carried out in DMSO at 60 C. It was found that the content of 2,6-dimethyl pyridine dicarboxylate units in the copolyamide, determined by NMR analysis, increased in the presence of Pullulane in comparison with the amount obtained in the absence of the template. This effect can be explained by preferential adsorption by the template of monomer having pyridine groups in comparison with the adsorption of dimethyl adipate. A set of experiments was carried out under the same conditions, but in the presence of poly(acrylonitrile) instead of Pullulane. The composition of copolyamides was the same as in copolycondensation without the template. 

The chromium(II) ion is in an uncommon trans planar environment (6) in bis(2,6-dimethyl-pyridine)bis(trifluoroacetato)chromium(II), which is prepared by the reaction sequence in... 

Trivial names for the methylpyndines are the picolines the dimethyl-pyridines are the lutidines-, and the trimethylpyridines (and in older literature the ethyldimethylpyndines) are the collidines. The refractive indices foi these alkyl pyridines and for pyridine itself fall in the range nD20 1-50-1.51. 

The reaction of allenic nitrile and 2-amino-6-methyl- and -4,6-dimethyl-pyridine gave a mixture of mono- and bis-adducts tentatively formulated as 75, 76, and 77 [88JCS(P1)975], while 2-amino-3-nitro-, 2,6-diamino-, and 2-amino-3,5-dibromopyridines do not react even after refluxing for 120 hours. 

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