Indazoles, 3-diazo-, couplings

Diazo coupling is expected to occur only with highly reactive systems, and experiment bears this out. Diazonium ions couple with the anions of N-unsubstituted imidazoles at the 2-position (e.g. 125 yields 126) and with indazoles (127) in the 3-position. In general, other azoles react only when they contain an amino, hydroxyl, or potential hydroxyl group, e.g. the 4-hydroxypyrazole (128), the triazolinone (129) and the thiazolidinedione (130) (all these reactions occur on the corresponding anions). 

The reaction is very common in pyrazolone chemistry. Since alkoxypyrazoles and tautomerizable pyrazolones undergo this reaction and 3-pyrazolin-5-ones, like antipyrine, do not, it is assumed that the reaction takes place at C-4 of the OH tautomer. Pyrazolone diazo coupling is an important industrial reaction since the resulting azo derivatives are used as dyestuffs. For instance, tartrazine (Section 4.04.4.1.3) has been prepared this way. 3,5-Pyrazolidinediones react with aryldiazonium salts resulting in the introduction of a 4-arylazo group. As has been described in Section 4.04.2.1.4(v), diazonium salts couple in the 3-position with indazole to give azo compounds. 

Indazole, 5,5-dimethyl-3-trifluoromethyl-4,5-dihydro-trichomonacidal activity, 5, 291 Indazole, 2-ethoxycarbonyl-reactions, 5, 269 Indazole, 3-fluoro-synthesis, S, 263 Indazole, 1-germyl-synthesis, 5, 236 Indazole, 1-glycosyl-synthesis, 5, 289 Indazole, 2-glycosyl-synthesis, 5, 289 Indazole, halo-reactions, S, 266 Indazole, 2-hydroxy-methylation, 5, 269 Indazole, 3-hydroxy-reactions, S, 264 Indazole, 6-hydroxy-diazo coupling, 5, 86 Indazole, hydroxyphenyl-synthesis, S, 288 Indazole, 3-iodo-synthesis, S, 241 Indazole, l-isopropyl-3-phenyl-reduction, 5, 243 Indazole, 3-mercapto-1 -substituted tautomerism, 5, 265 Indazole, methoxy-... 

The above considerations do not necessarily apply to reactions of electrophilic reagents with pyrazole and imidazole anions (134, 135). The imidazole anion is sometimes (diazo coupling, halogenation, deuterium exchange) substituted in the 2-position (139) and the indazole anion in the 3-position (cf. Section 3.4.1.4.5). 

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