2 -Nitropyridines, reactions

The main reaction of this type has been the reductive cyclization of nitropyridine derivatives carrying an o-amino ester or o-aminocarbonyl substituent. These cyclize in situ via the o-diamino derivative to give pyridopyrazines of known constitution, either for establishment of structure of products obtained in the ambiguous Isay synthesis (see Section 2.15.15.6.1), or in the synthesis of aza analogues of biologically active molecules. 

A few studies on solvolyses by alcohols and by water are available. The hydrolyses studied include displacement of alkylamino groups from acridine antimalarials and of halogen from other systems. In all cases, these reactions appeared to be first-order in the heterocyclic substrate. By a detailed examination of the acid hydrolysis of 2-halogeno-5-nitropyridine, Reinheimer et al. have shown that the reaction rate varies as the fourth power of the activity of water, providing direct evidence that the only reactive nucleophile is neutral water, as expected. 

The relative effects of methanol and ethanol as solvents in the reaction of 2-chloro-5-nitropyridine with aniline can be deduced from recent data by Chapman et and are reported in Table V. These... 

The ortho indirect deactivating effect of the two methyl groups in 2,6-dimethyl-4-nitropyridine 1-oxide (163) necessitates a much higher temperature (about 195°, 24 hr) for nucleophilic displacement of the nitro group by chloride (12iV HCl) or bromide ions N HBr) than is required for the same reaction with 4-nitropyridine 1-oxide (110°). With 5-, 6-, or 8-methyl-4-chloroquinolines, Badey observed 2-7-fold decreases in the rate of piperidino-dechlorination relative to that of the des-methyl parent (cf. Tables VII and XI, pp. 276 and 338, respectively). 

Halopyridines undergo self-quaternization on standing while the less reactive 2-halo isomers do not. However, more is involved here than the relative reactivity at the ring-positions. The reaction rate will depend on the relative riucleophilicity of the attack-ing pyridine-nitrogens (4-chloropyridine is more basic) and on the much lower steric hindrance at the 4-position. Related to this self-quatemization are the reactions of pyridine and picolines as nucleophiles with 4-chloro- and 2-chloro-3-nitropyridines. The 4-isomer (289) is. again the more reactive by 10-30-fold (Table VII, p. 276). 

However, attempts to prepare 3-iiitro-l,8-iiaphthyridiiie (11) by the Skraup reaction—heating of 2-amino-5-nitropyridine with glycerol in the presence of an oxidant— were not successful (74YZ1328). 

The reaction of 4-methoxy-3-nitropyridines 129 with guanidine under similar conditions results in 3-aminopyrido[3,4-e]-l,2,4-triazine 1-oxides 130 (76MI). 

Use of some pyridinium oxides in this reaction was also described and the formed azaphenoxathiin /V-oxides can be easily converted to their mother heterocycles (80JHC989, 87JHC211). When 3-chloro-4-nitropyridine 1-oxide (271) was used, small amounts of products of Smiles rearrangement were... 

Reaction of disodium salt of pyridine-2,3-dithiol (385) with l-chloro-2-nitrobenzene provided in 45% yield the corresponding aza analog 386 (82JHC1441). Similar treatment with 2-chloro-3-nitropyridine (193) provided... 

Extension of this work by reacting 5-nitropyrimidine with 0,0-ketene acetals and with other cyclic and non-cyclic enamines showed that also with these electron-rich dienophiles the addition is regioselective and gives rise to the formation of 2-mono- or 2,3-disubstituted 5-nitropyridines (Scheme 30). Thus, reaction of 5-nitropyrimidine with the cyclic N,S-ketene acetals 4,5-dihydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthiopyrrole and 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthioazepine gives in low yields 2,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-nitropyr-olo[2,3-h]pyridine and the 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-9-methyl-3-nitropyrido [2,3-Z)]azepine, respectively (89T2693) (Scheme 30). 

Nitration of 3,5-dimethoxypyridine and 3,5-dimethoxy-2-nitropyridine takes place at the 6 position as expected. For the former compound the rate-acidity profile shows reaction to clearly occur on the conjugate acid, whereas the latter only has a small increase in rate coefficient between H0 — 7.8 and —9.0, suggesting reaction on the free base. Correction of the observed rate coefficients as before gives a rate-acidity profile similar to that of 3,5-dimethoxypyridine showing that the reaction takes place upon the free base of the nitro compound. The corrected... 

Alkylzinc halides have also been prepared under microwave irradiation. The Reformatsky reagents (2-t-butoxy-2-oxoethyl)zinc bromide and [(2-dibenzylamino)-2-oxoethyl]zinc bromide were synthesized from the corresponding bromides via reaction with zinc in THF (Scheme 5) [24], The oxidative addition was executed at 100 °C in 5 min. The obtained reagents were subsequently used in Negishi reactions on 2-bromopyridine, 3-bromopyridine, 2-bromo-5-nitropyridine, and 2-bromo-5-trifluoromethyl-pyridine using Pd(PPh3)4 as a catalyst (Scheme 5). 

In the presence of zinc chloride, stereoselective aldol reactions can be carried out. The aldol reaction with the lithium enolate of /-butyl malonate and various a-alkoxy aldehydes gave anti-l,2-diols in high yields, and 2-trityloxypropanal yielded the syn-l,2-diol under the same conditions.633 Stoichiometric amounts of zinc chloride contribute to the formation of aminoni-tropyridines by direct amination of nitropyridines with methoxyamine under basic conditions.634 Zinc chloride can also be used as a radical initiator.635... 

Reaction of nitroketene animals with enaminoketones provides a route for the derivatives of 2-amino-3-nitropyridines (Eq. 10.87).147... 

The parent heterocycle of pyrido[2,3-e][l,2,4]triazine and its phenyl derivative 39 were prepared (89JHC475) by cyclization with polyphos-phoric acid of 3-acyIhydrazino-2-aminopyridines 36, obtained by reduction of the corresponding 3-acylhydrazino-2-nitropyridines 35. Compounds 35 were obtained from 3-fluoro-2-nitropyridine 34 either by reaction with benzoylhydrazine or by reaction with hydrazine and subsequent for-mylation of the initially formed 3-hydrazino-2-nitropyridine 38. Attempts to prepare 38 from 3-chloro-2-nitropyridine gave 2-hydrazino-3-chloropyridine 37. These results could be explained by semiempirical calculations (CNDO and MNDO calculations). 

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