Heteroaryl halides, nucleophilic substitution

Nucleophilic substitution with heteroaryl halides is a particularly useful and important reaction. Due to higher reactivity of heteroaryl halides (e.g. 35, equation 24) in nucleophilic substitution these reactions are widely employed for synthesis of Al-heteroaryl hydroxylamines such as 36. Nucleophilic substitution of halogen or sulfonate functions has been performed at positions 2 and 4 of pyridine , quinoline, pyrimidine , pyridazine, pyrazine, purine and 1,3,5-triazine systems. In highly activated positions nucleophilic substitutions of other than halogen functional groups such as amino or methoxy are also common. 

Recently, substitution of heteroaryl halides by carbon nucleophile with transition metal catalyst has become of great importance. These reactions are considered in a separate section. 

Aryl- and heteroaryl halides can undergo thermal or transition metal catalyzed substitution reactions with amines. These reactions proceed on insoluble supports under conditions similar to those used in solution. Not only halides, but also thiolates [76], nitro groups [76], sulfinates [77,78], and alcoholates [79] can serve as leaving groups for aromatic nucleophilic substitution. 

The majority of reported reactions of aryl and heteroaryl substrates with organocopper reagents are examples of Stephens-Castro coupling or the more recent catalytic version of that reaction. The reaction has found recent application in syntheses of C-(6)-substituted pterins and pteridines, substituted pyridines, and the antitumor antibiotic fredericamycin A," to name a few. Aryl iodide can be che-mospecifically displaced in the presence of bromide," and 2,5-dibromopyridine is regioselectively substituted at the 2-position. Substitution of halobenzenes by propargyl alcohol, followed by oxidative cleavage, provides a convenient route to terminal arylalkynes. " Fused heterocycles are formed in reactions of aryl halides bearing nucleophilic ortho substituents. - "... 

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