Hydrogen bonds pyrazole

Imidazoles and pyrazoles with free NH groups form hydrogen-bonded dimers and oligomers (66AHC(6)347). 

In the solid state the CH tautomer (78a) is always readily identified, but the OH and NH tautomers (that, in some cases, coexist in the crystal (73CSC469)) are difficult to differentiate due to the strong hydrogen bonds that shift the u(CO) band to the region of pyrazole vibrations. This source of complications is not present in the fixed forms that can always be identified by their IR spectra, both in solution and in the solid state. 

Pyrazoles with free NH groups form hydrogen-bonded cyclic dimers (195) and trimers (196) as well as linear polymers, depending on the substituents at positions 3 and 5. For R = H, Me or Et, the oligomers are preferred, but for R = Ph, the cyclic dimer and the linear polymers exist. The cyclic trimer (196 R = Ph) is) is not formed because of steric hindrance (B-76MI40402). 

The possible use of Si NMR for the study of the prototropy and sily-lotropy of pyrazoles has been explored (98MRC110). Another paper reports the use of P NMR for establishing that 3-phenyl-4-benzoylisoxazol-5-one is hydrogen-bonded to tri-n-octylphosphine as the NH-tautomer [96MI(14)653j. 

Such modifications can be produced either in the kinetic aspects (proton transfer) or in the equilibrium constant. Both effects are mediated by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. For instance, Navarro et al. (93MI69) showed that the rate of proton transfer between the two nitrogen atoms of pyrazole (annular tautomerism) is considerably reduced in macrocycles containing oxygen or nitrogen atoms in the macroring. 

Reaction of [Ir( -Cp )Cl2(/A-Cl)2]2 and pyrazole in the presence of potassium hydroxide leads to complex 105 characterized by the dynamic hydrogen bond between three pyrazole nuclei (86AGE1114). 3,5-Dimethylpyrazole in identical conditicHis produces 106 where two pyrazole nuclei share a proton and one is unprotonated. Addition of tetrafluoroboric acid to 106 yields 107, where the second proton is bonded to the nonchelated ligand. Addition of the third proton causes formation of [Ir( -Cp )(Hpz )3](BF4)2. 

Merck has recently utilised a furo[2,3-b]pyridine core (554) as a bioisosteric replacement for the pyrazole scaffold of rimonabant (382) [328]. The same basic pharmacophore, that of two halo-substituted aryl groups and a third hydrophobic motif proximal to a hydrogen-bond acceptor, can be witnessed in the benzodioxole-based compounds, such as (555), disclosed by Roche [329]. 

Yu WS, Cheng CC, Cheng YM et al (2003) Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer in five-membered hydrogen-bonding systems 2-pyridyl pyrazoles. J Am Chem Soc 125 10800-10801... 

The same effect is observed for the substituted pyridyl-pyrazole and -imidazole systems. While 2-(pyrazol-l-yl)pyridine 24 gives a low spin iron(II) complex a continuous spin transition is observed centred just above room temperature in solid salts of [Fe (31)3]2+ and just below in solution [39]. Spin crossover occurs in the [Fe N6]2+ derivative of 2-(pyridin-2-yl)benzimidazole 32 (Dq(Ni2+)=1050 cm"1) but not in that of the 6-methyl-pyridyl system 33 (Dq(Ni2+)=1000 cm"1). Although the transition in salts of [Fe 323]2+ is strongly influenced by the nature of the anion and the extent of hydration, suggesting an influence of hydrogen-bonding, in all instances it is continuous [40]. 

The incorporation of two terminal pyrazole or triazole rings into the ter-pyridine framework leads to a diversity of spin crossover behaviour not seen, for example, in the bis(thiazolyl) systems discussed above. It is likely that the presence of a non-coordinating >NH group and its involvement in hydrogen bonding gives rise to the striking effects. For a series of salts of [Fe(bpp)2]2+ (bpp is 2,6-bis(pyrazol-3- yl)pyridine 58) a marked dependence of the spin state on the anion and the extent of hydration has been observed [85-88]. 

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