Isoquinoline TV-oxide

Treatment of isoquinoline tV-oxide (55) with sodium hydride in dimethyl sulfoxide results in ring expansion, albeit in poor yield, to the 3//-3-benzazepine 56, along with a trace of naphthalene (0.8%), and much tar.26... 

Isopulegol, 24 517-519, 526 Isoquinoline. See also Isoquinolines reduction of, 27 201 uses for, 27 206-208 Isoquinoline derivatives. See also Isoquinolines drugs, 27 207—208t synthesis of, 27 201-206 uses for, 27 206-208 Isoquinoline TV-oxide, 27 200-201 Isoquinolines, 27 182, 200-208 alkyl, 27 205... 

The photolysis of quinoline AT-oxides in protic media mainly leads to carbostyrils (Scheme 120) (63ACS1461) while in aprotic media ring expansion and contraction products are obtained (69ACS2149, 71TL1311). Isoquinoline TV-oxides behave similarly (Scheme 120)... 

The reaction of N,lV-dimethyIaniline with pyridine (equation 55) should also be considered in this category. Enamines usually attack acylated N- oxides at position 2 unless it is blocked, as in 2-methylquinoline 1-oxide, when attack takes place at C-4. Methyl /3-aminocrotonate attacks quinoline and isoquinoline TV-oxides at the position a to the N- oxide function in the presence of tosyl chloride (78JHC1425). However, pyridine and 2-methylpyridine 1-oxides react at the 4-position (equation 142). A low yield of by-product (242) is formed in each case, probably as a result of self-condensation of methyl /3-aminocrotonate. 4-Hydroxyquinoline 1-oxide is exceptional in that it reacts with an enamine in the presence of tosyl chloride at the /3-position (Scheme 170) (B-71MI20500). 5-Amino-3-methylisoxazole reacts with quinoline 1-oxide at the a-position, and the product can be degraded, to afford ultimately 2-methylquinoline (Scheme 171) (78CPB2759). 

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