3.5- Dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide with phosphoryl chloride

Dialkylpyrazines as their mono- and di-A -oxides are smoothly converted by phosphoryl chloride into 2-chloro- and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dialkylpyrazines, respectively (740). Thus 2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide with phosphoryl chloride gives 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine in 85% yield (612, 740), but 2,5-dimethylpyrazine di-A -oxide gave a low yield of 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine which was not increased when sulfuryl chloride was used in place of phosphoryl chloride. Similar... 

Reactions of C-alkoxypyrazine A-oxides with phosphoryl chloride have been described in Section V.IG (756, 817, 838, 872, 881). For example, 3-ethoxy-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide refluxed with phosphoryl chloride for 10 minutes gave 2-chloro-5-ethoxy-3,6-dimethylpyrazine and 2-chloromethyl-3-ethoxy-5-methyl-pyrazine (872). 

A number of piperazine-2,5-diones (a-amino acid anhydrides ) has been converted to pyrazines by the action of phosphorus halides. Baxter and Spring (312) first described the conversion of isoleucine anhydride (45) with phosphoryl chloride to 2,5-di-s-butyl-3,6-dichloropyrazine (46, X = Cl) and 2,5-di-s-butyl-3-chloropyrazine (46, X = H), and of DL-alanine anhydride (47) similary to 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (48, X = Q) and 3from alanine anhydride does not involve an oxidation step, whereas the formation of 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine involves the oxidation of an intermediate dihydropyrazine derivative. Treatment of DL-alanine anhydride with phosphoryl chloride in the presence of a tertiary base (dimethylaniline) gave only the monochloro derivative the intermediate dichlorodihydropyrazine presumably loses hydrogen chloride and gives the stable aromatic 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine. 

Matsuura and co-workers (756) have reexamined the reactions of the A -oxides of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine and found that 2,5-dimethylpyrazine di-A -oxide (29) when heated with phosphoryl chloride at 160° gave 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (6%) (30), 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (5%) (31), and 5-chloromethyl-2-methylpyrazine 1 -oxide (9%) (32). In addition small amounts of other chlorinated products, 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-5-methylpyrazine (33) and 2,5-bischloromethyl-pyrazine (34), were identified. These authors also examined the action of p-tosyl chloride, methane sulfonyl chloride, and mixtures of phosphoryl chloride and concentrated sulfuric acid, but state that these did not give good results. Pyrazine 1-oxide and phosphoryl chloride have been shown to give 2reaction conditions it gave 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (757). Pyrazine 1,4-dioxide and benzenesulfonyl chloride also gave a low yield of 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (758). 

Dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1,4-dioxide with phosphoryl chloride at 170° gave 2,5-dichloro-3,6-bis(chloromethyl)pyrazine and 2,5-dichloro-3-chloromethyl-6-methylpyrazine 1-oxide and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide gave 2,5-dichloro-3-chloromethyl-6-methylpyrazine (756). 

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