Indoles, hydroxy-, tautomerism

Indole-2-carboxylic acid, 5-bromo-l-hydroxy-tautomerism, 4, 197-198 Indolecarboxylic acid chloride synthesis, 4, 288... 

Benzimidazolone, 50 Benz [cd] indole, 5-hydroxy-, tautomerism of, 19 Benzofurans... 

Indole, 3-hydroxymethyl-2-phenyl-stability, 4, 272 Indole, I-hydroxy-2-phenyl-synthesis, 4, 363 Indole, 2-iodo-synthesis, 4, 216 Indole, 3-iodo-reaetions, 4, 307 synthesis, 4, 216 Indole, 2-iodo-l-methyl-reaetions, 4, 307 Indole, 2-lithio-synthesis, 4, 308 Indole, 3-lithio-synthesis, 4, 308 Indole, 2-mereapto-tautomerism, 4, 38, 199 Indole, 3-mercapto-tautomerism, 4, 38, 199 Indole, 3-methoxy-synthesis, 4, 367 Indole, 5-methoxy-oxidation, 4, 248 Indole, 7-methoxy-2,3-dimethyl-aeetylation, 4, 219 benzoylation, 4, 219 Indole, 5-methoxy-l-methyl-reduetion, 4, 256 Indole, 5-methoxy-l-methyl-3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-reaetions... 

Equilibrium and rate constants for the keto-enol tautomerization of 3-hydroxy-indoles and -pyrroles are collected in Table 32 (86TL3275). The pyrroles ketonize substantially (103-104 times) faster than their sulfur or oxygen analogues, and faster still than the benzo-fused systems, indole, benzofuran, and benzothiophene. The rate of ketonization of the hydroxy-thiophenes and -benzothiophenes in acetonitrile-water (9 1) is as follows 2-hydroxybenzo[b]thiophene > 2,5-dihydroxythiophene > 2-hydroxythiophene > 3-hydroxybenzo[/ Jthiophene > 3-hydroxythiophene. 3-Hydroxythiophene does not ketonize readily in the above solvent system, but in 1 1 acetonitrile-water, it ketonizes 6.5 times slower than 2-hydroxythiophene (87PAC1577). 

In contrast with the hydroxy compounds, comparatively little is known of the tautomeric preferences of pyrrole- and indole-thiols. The compounds are readily oxidized to form the bis-heteroaryldisulfides and the available spectral data for the monomeric systems suggest that, in contrast with the oxygen analogues, the 2-pyrrole- and 3-indole-thiols exist predominantly as such, whereas the sulfur analogue of oxindole is the predominant tautomer for the 2-indolyl system <63AHC(2)1,76AHC(SuppI. 1)214). 

The C-2 and C-3 hydroxy derivatives of pyrrole are special in the sense that the tautomeric equilibria favor the pyrrolinone structures (see Section 3.04.6.2). Furthermore, the general synthetic methods are not usually applicable so that we will call attention in this section not only to the methods of directly introducing these substituents, which are rare, but also to those ring construction processes which specifically give the pyrrolinones and indolinones. The indole derivatives have widely used trivial names, oxindole (5) for indolin-2-one and indoxyl (6) for indolin-3-one, Carbocyclic hydroxy substituents in indole and carbazole, on the other hand, for the most part act as normal aromatic phenolic groups. These compounds are usually prepared by application of the standard ring syntheses. 

The substitution reaction may occur on a prototropic nonaromatic form. Both types of tautomerism, i.e., that prevailing in the parent heterocycles (pyrrole-pyrrolenine, indole-indolenine) and that typical of the hydroxy and amino derivatives, must be considered. 

Equilibrium and rate constants for the keto-enol tautomerization of hydroxy heterocycles are summarized in Table 38 <1986TL3275>. The pyrroles ketonize (i.e., 226 — 230) substantially faster (103-104 times) than their sulfur or oxygen analogues, and still faster than the benzo-fused systems (indole, benzofuran, and benzothiophene). 

Now oxindole by reduction with zinc dust yields indole which must therefore have the constitution as given below. Oxindole is the ketone of a di-hydrogenated indole, or it may be considered as the tautomeric compound, i.e., a mono-hydroxy indole. 

A summary of properties for indirubin-3 -monoxime is given in Table 6. The molecule is flat, has a moderate logD and acidic character which leads to acceptable predicted solubility. Although the number of H-bond donor groups is quite large (n = 3), it is likely that a tautomeric form in which the hydroxy indole is intramolecularly bonded to the indole nitrogen would be favoured and, if so, this would lead to improved permeability and less desolvation penalty. The PSA is moderate (74 A ) and the predicted brain-plasma ratio [82] is 0.3 (likely... 

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