Nicotinic acid from /.-substituted pyridines

Beta nicotinic acid to 6-hydroxy nicotinic acid 3-substituted pyridine to a building block for imidacloprid (an insecticide) R-Cyanohydrins from benzaldehydes and HCN ... 

P-Picoline may serve as an important source of nicotinic acid [59-67-6] for dietary supplements. A variety of substituted pyridines may be prepared from acrolein (75—83). 

Tobacco Alkaloids. The relatively small number of alkaloids derived from nicotinic acid (27) (the tobacco alkaloids) are obtained from plants of significant commercial value and have been extensively studied. They are distinguished from the bases derived from ornithine (23) and, in particular, lysine (24), since the six-membered aromatic substituted pyridine nucleus common to these bases apparendy is not derived from (24). 

Reaction of -picoline over degassed Raney nickel was found to give 5,5 -dimethyl-2,2 -bipyridine (5), the structure of which was established by its synthesis from 2-bromo-5-methylpyridine. Oxidation of this dimethyl-2,2 -bipyridine, and similar oxidation of the diethyl-2,2 -bipyridine derived from 3-ethylpyridinc, gave the corresponding dicarboxylic acid and the same acid was produced by the action of degassed Raney nickel on sodium nicotinate (in water) or on ethyl nicotinate. These transformations established the 5,5 -substitution pattern for three 2,2 -bipyridines derived from 3-substituted pyridines but such evidence is not available for the biaryls... 

A number of syntheses of substituted 2,3 -bipyridines are worthy of note. Tetracyclone heated at 215°C with nicotinonitrile affords 3,4,5,6-tetraphenyl-2,3 -bipyridine, whereas 3,4-di(2-pyridyl)pyridine is obtained by an oxidative degradation of the corresponding 6,7-disubstituted thiazolo[3,2-a]-pyridinium salt. Nicotinic acid on UV irradiation in aqueous solution at pH 4-6 gives 2,3 -bipyridine-5-carboxylic acid, whereas irradiation of picolinic acid in the same pH range in the absence of metal ions gives some 2,3 -bipyridine. 6,6 -Diphenyl-2,3 -bipyridine is thought to be formed from... 

Furo[3,4-r]pyridine derivatives are generated from the reaction of 2,3-dihalopropenyl ketones with the ethyl ester of / -aminocrotonic acid. Initial reaction products are substituted nicotinic acids which can be partially converted into the furopyridines under harsh vacuum distillation conditions (Scheme 12) <2005CHE1009>. 

A synthesis of pyrrolo[2,3-, ]pyridine derivatives from nicotinic acid or 2,6-dichloropyridine affords 1,3- and 1,3,6-substituted pyrrolo[2,3-, ]pyridines <2006JOC5538>. 

An iron-catalyzed reaction of an a,P-unsaturated oxime such as 68 with a P-oxo ester also gave pyridine derivatives such as nicotinic acid 69 [99]. Under the reaction conditions (150-160 °C, without solvent) first Michael adducts such as intermediate 70 are presumably formed, which further condense via intermediate 71. This method is not restricted to a centric symmetry in the substitution pattern, which is an advantage compared with the Hantzsch synthesis. Moreover, the method starts with hydroxylamine being two oxidation stages above ammonia therefore, no oxidation in the final stage from dihydro- to pyridine is necessary (Scheme 8.31). 

The 3,6-diposition-substituted pyridine compounds are important intermediates for industrial synthesis, especially for production of some agricultural chemicals. This compound can be obtained by chemically synthesized from pyridine, but the process is accompanied by some by-products. Microbial hydroxylation of aromatic compounds is a very efficient method of regioselective reaction. Several methods have been reported for the preparation of 3,6-disubstituted pyridine using microorganisms. In 1985, Lehky et al. reported the microbial production of 6-hydroxynicotinic acid (6-HNA) from nicotinic acid (NA) by Achromobacter xylosoxydans Nagasawa et al. also prepared 6-HNA from NA by using Pseudomonas fluorescens TN5. 

Also surprising is the conversion of nicotinic acid chloride hydrochloride into 5-bromonicotinic acid in 87 per cent yield, by heating with bromine at 150-170°. Direct chlorination was much less successfuP . This may be a direct electrophilic substitution, but the nicotinic acid chloride hydrochloride was prepared from nicotinic acid and thionyl chloride (see p. 322), and it is just possible that the reaction is related to the substitutions into pyridine-thionyl chloride complexes discussed below (p. 228). It might even be that nicotinic acid chloride hydrochloride is not a simple salt but possesses a structure like the pyridine-thionyl chloride complex. 

The amides and hydrazides of pyridine-carboxylic acids arc of some importance, though their chemistry is not marked by unusual properties. Nicotinamide is, of course, an important compound, and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (isoniazid) is an antitubercular drug. Substituted derivatives are used as antidepressants. In general, however, these compounds show normal chemical behaviour. The amides undergo hydrolysis, dehydration and Hofmann bromination without difficulty. Their reduction has been much studied as a route to pyridine aldehydes. The Sonn-Muller reduction is not very satisfactory in this series, but the McFadyen-Stevens reaction is useful . Nicotinic acid diethylamide gives only poor yields of the aldehyde upon reduction with lithium aluminium hydride, but yields from the methyl-phenylamide are high. Most satisfactory is the reduction of nicotinic acid dimethylamide with lithium diethoxyaluminium hydride . 

Radicals generated by irradiation of the esters of iV-hydroxy-2-thiopyri-done added efficiently to protonated pyridines. When ester 192, derived from adamantanoic acid, is irradiated with a tungsten lamp in the presence of pyridinium camphorsulfonate 193 in dichloromethane at room temperature, a smooth reaction occurs to give an 81% yield of the 6-substituted methyl nicotinate 194. The camphorsulfonate of pyridine itself affords approximately equal amounts of 2- and 4-substituted products (86TL1327). 

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