Lepidin

The easier elimination of pyridine compared to quinoline-4 may be related to the pK value of 4-methylthiazole, which is between those of lepidine and 2-picoline (25. 55). This reaction explains also why a neutrodimethine cyanine is obtained with such good yields when reacting together a quaternary salt, ketomethylene, and o-ester in a basic medium. As the reaction proceeds, the trimethine cyanine is attacked by the ketomethylene. The resulting 2-methyl quaternary salt is transformed into trimethine cyanine, consuming the totality of the ketomethylene (1, p. 512 661). The mesosubstituted neutrodimethine cyanine is practically pure. 

Merocyanines with selenazolidine nuclei are obtained in 70 to 80°/o yield from the appropriate derivatives of lepidine or quinaldine (Scheme 79) (84). 

Polymers. Quinoline and its derivatives may be added to or incorporated in polymers to introduce ion-exchange properties (see Ion exchange). For example, phenol—formaldehyde polymers have been treated with quinoline, quinaldine, or lepidine (81) (see Phenolic resins). Resins with variable basic exchange capacities have been prepared by treating Amherlites with 2-methylquinoline (82). 

The catalyst is previously prepared in an apparatus for catalytic hydrogenation, in which are placed 0.5 g. of palladous chloride, 3.0 g. of Norite, and 20 ml. of distilled water. The bottle is swept out with hydrogen and then shaken with hydrogen for 2-3 hours at 2-3 atmospheres (40 lb.) pressure. The palladium on carbon is collected on a Biichner funnel, washed with five 50-ml. portions of distilled water, then with five 50-ml. portions of 95% ethanol, and finally twice with ether. Upon drying, about 3 g. of the catalyst is obtained. It is stored in a vacuum desiccator over solid sodium hydroxide. If the reduction of the chloro-lepidine does not proceed normally, the used catalyst should be removed by suction filtration and a fresh 3-g. portion of catalyst added. Failure of the reduction step is usually due to an inactive catalyst or to impurities in the acetic acid or chlorolepidine. The palladium catalysts, prepared as described elsewhere in this volume, are presumably also satisfactory for the reduction of 2-chlorolepidine (p. 77). 

Functional amines, e.g., m-aminophenol, 2-methyl-2-chloro-3-aminophenol, and 4-chloro-3-aminophenol, react with 4-methoxybut-3-en-2-one to yield functional lepidine derivatives 230 (62AG161). 

Table II shows that, at least for the reactions with quinoline and with 4-methylquinoline (lepidine), nickel-alumina and degassed Raney nickel catalysts are of similar efficiency but better yields have been obtained with degassed Raney nickel, and only this catalyst produces the biaryl from 7-methyIquinoIine.

Most of the reactions with quinolines and degassed Raney nickels have been carried out at the atmospheric boiling point (above 230 C), a condition which is known to favor the formation of by-products. With quinoline and 4-methylquinoline (lepidine), however, the yields of the 2,2 -biquinolines were increased three to four times by heating in vacuo at 150° C, and it seems probable that other quinolines will behave similarly. Table II also shows that the yields of 2,2 -biquino-lines obtained under comparable conditions vary with the position of the methyl group in a fashion reminiscent of the trends observed with the pyridines (Table I). This similarity extends to the behavior of the two 2-methyl substituted quinolines studied, which undergo loss of the 2-methyl group to some extent and form traces of 2,2 -biquinolines. 

Y = primaquine, mepacrine, amodiaquine, lepidine, plasmoquine, pentaquine, and isopentaquine, have been reported.420 Similar studies of 27 complexes of general formula [IrY3], where... 

When N-ethylated-a-picoline, y-picoline, and lepidine were reacted with the ethoxy cation 75, instead of the expected cyanines of type 136 or 137 the products were dicationic species, whose structures were assigned to be bis(diphenylcyclopropenium)-monomethine cyanines, e.g. 142105 ... 

In the quinoline series, the 2- and 4-methyl derivatives (quinaldine and lepidine respectively) will also undergo condensations at the methyl groups. Use of an aldehyde gives the secondary alcohol, which may then be dehydrated to provide the styryl compound... 

The reactivity of 9-methylacridine is, as might be expected, similar to that of 4-methyl-pyridine and lepidine, aromatic aldehydes giving either a-aryl-/8 (9-acridyl)ethanols or styrene derivatives depending on the conditions. 

Closely related are the cyanine dyes, for example cyanine (62) itself, which is formed from the ethiodide salts of lepidine and 4-iodoquinoline in the presence of base (Scheme 51). Analogous monomethine cyanines can have the quinoline nuclei linked 2,2 (pseudocyanines) and 2,4 (isocyanines). Quinaldine ethiodide on condensation With ethyl orthoformate gives the 2,2 -linked trimethine cyanine (carbocyanine) (63), known as pinacyanol (Scheme 51). 

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