Oxidable groups

The commonly used commercial lead-based PVC stabilizers rely on one or more lead(II) oxide groups bound to the primary bivalent lead salt. 

Substitution Reactions. Aromatic heterocycHc A/-oxides undergo both electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution because the dipolar N-oxide group is both an electron donor and an electron acceptor, giving rise to the resonance stmctures ... 

Nucleophilic substitution occurs in positions a and y to the N-oxide group. In nearly all these reactions deoxygenation occurs giving the substituted heterocychc amine. 

Number of ethylene oxide groups in esterified polyoxyethylene (POE). See Table 1. 

Polyurethane foams are formed by reaction with glycerol with poly(propylene oxide), sometimes capped with poly(ethylene oxide) groups with a reaction product of trimethylolpropane and propylene oxide or with other appropriate polyols. A typical reaction sequence is shown below, in which HO—R—OH represents the diol. If a triol is used, a cross-linked product is obtained. 

Although connection of polyalkylene or poly(alkylene oxide) groups to the polyamine is most commonly by the succinimide linkage, a different linking group is employed in another important class of ashless dispersants— the Mannich bases. They are prepared on a commercial scale by reaction of an alkylphenol with formaldehyde and a polyamine (173—177). The alkyl and polyamine moieties are similar to those used in the succinimide products. 

When nitration of pyridazine iV-oxides is carried out with acyl nitrates (prepared in situ from acyl chlorides and silver nitrate) the reaction takes place at the /3-position relative to the iV-oxide group. Under these circumstances only mononitro derivatives are formed. For example, nitration of pyridazine 1-oxide with acetyl nitrate yields 3-nitropyridazine 1-oxide (17%) and 5-nitropyridazine 1-oxide (0.8%), whereas with benzoyl nitrate a better yield of 5-nitropyridazine 1-oxide is obtained. 

Pyridazine 1-oxides substituted at position 3 or positions 3 and 6 afford the corresponding 5-nitro derivatives. A methyl group at position 6 (a with respect to the iV-oxide group) is frequently converted into the cyano group, and a methoxy group at position 6 is demethy-lated by benzoyl chloride/silver nitrate. For example, 3-substituted 6-methylpyridazine 1-oxides give the 5-nitro derivatives (96) and the 6-cyano-5-nitro derivatives (97), whereas... 

Mannich reaction with pyridazinone 1-oxides takes place at the a- or y-positions relative to the iV-oxide group, in contrast to the reaction in the pyridazinone series, where N-substituted products are formed. Pyridazin-3(2FT)-one 1-oxide gives first the corresponding 6-substituted derivative with excess of the reagents, 4,6-disubstituted products are obtained. When position 6 is blocked the corresponding 4-dialkylaminomethyl derivatives are obtained. 

Treatment of pyridazine 1-oxides with phosphorus oxychloride results in a-chlorination with respect to the N-oxide group, with simultaneous deoxygenation. When the a-position is blocked, substitution occurs at the y-position. 3-Methoxypyridazine 1-oxide, for example, is converted into 6-chloro-3-methoxypyridazine and 3,6-dimethylpyridazine 1-oxide into 4-chloro-3,6-dimethylpyridazine. 

When alkoxypyridazine 1-oxides are heated alone or in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid the methyl group migrates from the methoxy group to the A-oxide group. In this manner, 4-methoxypyridazine 1-oxide rearranges to l-methoxypyridazin-4(l//)-one, 5-methoxypyridazine 1-oxide to 2-methylpyridazin-5(2//)-one 1-oxide and substituted 3,6-dimethoxypyridazine 1-oxides to l,3-dimethoxypyridazin-6(l//)-ones. 

In those reactions where the fV-oxide group assists electrophilic or nucleophilic substitution reactions, and is not lost during the reaction, it is readily removed by a variety of reductive procedures and thus facilitates the synthesis of substituted derivatives of pyrazine, quinoxaline and phenazine. 

Removal of AT-oxide groups by PCI3 follows normal behaviour (63JCS6073), but with acetic anhydride the AAoxides (332) underwent a complex ring-opening reaction leading to (333), and an isomeric 8-alkoxy-6-oxide behaved similarly (75H(3)38l). 

AT-Oxidation is very sensitive to steric effects, since 1-substituted lumazines and pterins give only 5-oxides and the presence of bulky substituents at position 7 also directs oxidation to N-5. The pteridine 5-oxide (52) and 8-oxide (53) and the 5,8-dioxide (55) contain the AT-oxide groups as such, even when the possibility of AT-hydroxy tautomers exists, as in (53) i(54). 

A useful approach to the substitution of ring C—H positions lies in the activation of the heteroaromatic system by an A-oxide group, initiating a formal intramolecular redox reaction. 1-Methyllumazine 5-oxide reacts with acetic anhydride in a Katada rearrangement... 

The reactivity of these compounds is somewhat similar to that of the azolonium ions, particularly when the cationic species is involved. However, although the typical reaction is with nucleophiles, the intermediate (20) can lose the iV-oxide group to give the simple a-substituted azole (21). Benzimidazole 3-oxides are readily converted into 2-chloroben-... 

Azole 7V-oxide groups are readily removed by reduction with Zn/HOAc, HI or PCI3, e.g. in the pyrazole series. 1,2,3-Thiadiazole 3-oxides isomerize on irradiation to the corresponding 2-oxides. 

Enby 6 is an example of a stereospecific elimination reaction of an alkyl halide in which the transition state requires die proton and bromide ion that are lost to be in an anti orientation with respect to each odier. The diastereomeric threo- and e/ytAra-l-bromo-1,2-diphenyl-propanes undergo )3-elimination to produce stereoisomeric products. Enby 7 is an example of a pyrolytic elimination requiring a syn orientation of die proton that is removed and the nitrogen atom of the amine oxide group. The elimination proceeds through a cyclic transition state in which the proton is transferred to die oxygen of die amine oxide group. 

There is also for the quinidine ether oxide group (formula C) an im-expected third isomeride, possibly due to epimerisation about carbon atoms 9 and 10. These quinidine isomerides are no doubt convertible... 

The A-oxide group is more strongly activating in nucleophilic substitution than the aza group itself because of the increased contribution of the polarized structure 38. ... 

It is useful to compare the spectroscopic data of 1,2,4-triazine mono-A-oxides with the data for the corresponding 1,2,4-triazines. Introduction of an A-oxide group in the 1,2,4-triazine ring changes its physicochemical properties dramatically, and the analysis of these changes allows one to determine which of three nitrogens is oxidized. The most useful method in this case is NMR spectroscopy, including H, C, and N NMR. 

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