Picoline amination

Another useful scaffold, discovered recently by chance in our laboratories during an array synthesis, is now available for combinatorial chemistry [12]. All wells containing 2-picolinic amine reacted in an unexpected way. Detailed inspection of these reactions provided a novel MCR towards 1,2,4-trisubstituted lH-imidazol-4-yl-pyridines. Typical examples and their yields are given in Scheme 3.7. During... 

Reactions with Ammonia and Amines. Acetaldehyde readily adds ammonia to form acetaldehyde—ammonia. Diethyl amine [109-87-7] is obtained when acetaldehyde is added to a saturated aqueous or alcohoHc solution of ammonia and the mixture is heated to 50—75°C in the presence of a nickel catalyst and hydrogen at 1.2 MPa (12 atm). Pyridine [110-86-1] and pyridine derivatives are made from paraldehyde and aqueous ammonia in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures (62) acetaldehyde may also be used but the yields of pyridine are generally lower than when paraldehyde is the starting material. The vapor-phase reaction of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and ammonia at 360°C over oxide catalyst was studied a 49% yield of pyridine and picolines was obtained using an activated siHca—alumina catalyst (63). Brown polymers result when acetaldehyde reacts with ammonia or amines at a pH of 6—7 and temperature of 3—25°C (64). Primary amines and acetaldehyde condense to give Schiff bases CH2CH=NR. The Schiff base reverts to the starting materials in the presence of acids. 

Reactivity Acrolein is a highly reactive chemical, and contamination of all types must be avoided. Violent polymerization may occur by contamination with either alkaline materials or strong mineral acids. Contamination by low molecular weight amines and pyridines such as a-picoline is especially hazardous because there is an induction period that may conceal the onset of an incident and allow a contaminant to accumulate unnoticed. After the onset of polymeriza tion the temperature can rise precipitously within rninutes. 

The N-oxide function has proved useful for the activation of the pyridine ring, directed toward both nucleophilic and electrophilic attack (see Amine oxides). However, pyridine N-oxides have not been used widely ia iadustrial practice, because reactions involving them almost iavariably produce at least some isomeric by-products, a dding to the cost of purification of the desired isomer. Frequently, attack takes place first at the O-substituent, with subsequent rearrangement iato the ring. For example, 3-picoline N-oxide [1003-73-2] (40) reacts with acetic anhydride to give a mixture of pyridone products ia equal amounts, 5-methyl-2-pyridone [1003-68-5] and 3-methyl-2-pyridone [1003-56-1] (11). 

Phenols. Phenols are unreactive toward chloroformates at room temperature and at elevated temperatures the yields of carbonates are relatively poor (< 10%) in the absence of catalysis. Many catalysts have been claimed in the patent Hterature that lead to high yields of carbonates from phenol and chloroformates. The use of catalyst is even more essential in the reaction of phenols and aryl chloroformates. Among the catalysts claimed are amphoteric metals or thek haUdes (16), magnesium haUdes (17), magnesium or manganese (18), secondary or tertiary amines such as imidazole (19), pyridine, quinoline, picoline (20—22), heterocycHc basic compounds (23) and carbonamides, thiocarbonamides, phosphoroamides, and sulfonamides (24). 

The use of silver (II) salts, particularly argentic picolinate, as reagents for hydroxyl oxidation has also been disclosed recently. The reaction may be run in acid, neutral or basic media in aqueous or polar organic solvents at room or slightly elevated temperatures. Primary alcohols may be oxidized to aldehydes or acids depending on the conditions used. Amines and trivalent phosphorous compounds are more sensitive to oxidation with this reagent than are hydroxyl groups. 

Similarly complex is the fluorination of the Ihtes methylpyridines (a-, ()-, and 7-picolmes) with cesium tetrafluorocobaltate. 2-Methylpyridme was fluorinated at 270 °C for 180-200 mm, 3- and 4-methylpyridmes were fluorinated at 330 to 340 °C for 150 min All of them afforded the respective polyjluorinated pyridines and perfiuoro-1,2-, 1,3-dimethyl-, and 1-ethylpyrrolidine In addition, perfluoro-2-aza-2-hexene and bis(tnfluoromethyl)amine were isolated m variable yields [27] All the isolated products of the fluorination of 3-methylpyridme (3-picoline) are shown in equation 9. 

Studies of the reaction of 3-deuteropyridine and 3-picoline with sodamide has shown that this type of amination does not proceed through a pyridyne intermediate as had been postulated recently. 

Further organic storing materials Phenyl bromide [14], pyridine, 1 -picoline, 2,6-lutidine [15-17] Arsonium salts [18, 19] Phosphonium salts [20] Pyridinium bromides [21] Aromatic amines [22] Urotropin-bromine adduct [23] Pyridinium and sulfonium salts [24] Propionitril [25]... 

Polymeric adsorbents have also been found to be very useful, and even highly water-loving undesired materials like p-toluene sulphonic acid from waste streams can be recovered via ad.sorption and regeneration with solvents like fv -propanol. In such instances, the regeneration of activated carbons is not satisfactory, even with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Solutes like phenols, substituted phenols, aromatic amines, heterocyclic amines (pyridine, picolines, etc.) can be recovered, in a rewarding way, from aqueous solutions. 

Besides direct reduction, a one-pot reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones with a-picoline-borane in methanol, in water, and in neat conditions gives the corresponding amine products (Scheme 8.2).40 The synthesis of primary amines can be performed via the reductive amination of the corresponding carbonyl compounds with aqueous ammonia with soluble Rh-catalyst (Eq. 8.17).41 Up to an 86% yield and a 97% selectivity for benzylamines were obtained for the reaction of various benzaldehydes. The use of a bimetallic catalyst based on Rh/Ir is preferable for aliphatic aldehydes. 

The data in Table 3 also show that the N-H BDE of aniline (9b) and the C-H BDE of P-picoline (9c) are quite similar and are calculated to differ by only 0.1 kcal/mol at the BVWN5/AUG-cc-pVTZ level of theory. This is also true for cases other than 9b versus 9c as shown by the calculated enthalpies in Table 4.77 The isodesmic reaction in Table 4 gives the difference between the N-H BDEs of RNH2 and the C-H BDEs of comparable R CH3 species. For R=R =Ph, the calculated difference in BDEs between aniline (9b) and toluene is only 0.3 kcal/mol and for R=R =H, the N-H BDE in NH3 is computed to be only 1.4 kcal/mol larger than the C-H BDE in CH4. The latter energy difference is close to the experimental value of 3.7 kcal/mol.76 Thus, the results in Table 4 show that the N-H BDEs of primary amines are, in general, nearly... 

An ingenious strategy developed by Jun s group makes use of a chelating 3-picolin-2-yl group for performing C-C bond forming reactions. In the particular example shown, for the synthesis of aromatic ketones, methylvinyl ketone is added to suppress unwanted reductive amination processes (Equation (130)). 

The water-gas shift rates are obviously much lower when heterogenized in comparison with the Rh complexes in homogeneous solutions of the amines (also see Tables 30-33). Kinetics for nitrobenzene reduction were performed for the cis-[Rh(CO)2(2-picoline)2]PF6 catalyst, and reported in 2000. Kinetics displayed a first order dependence on Pco over the range 0-1.9 atm in the temperature range 80-120 °C. As with the kinetics previously reported by Lima Neto and coworkers,121 it was suggested that the CO addition preceded the rate limiting step. A non-linear dependence on the rate versus Rh concentration, as with the previous study, suggested participation by both mononuclear and polynuclear species. 

N - Benzyl- N -p icolinoylpiperazine (EGYT-475, 4.88), a compound with potential antidepressant activity, underwent similar hydrolysis. After intravenous administration, picolinic acid (4.89) was one of its major urinary metabolites in rats the other product, A-benzylpiperazine (4.90) was also detected, but at much lower levels, since it was further transformed by A-de-benzylation [55], Since the products of direct hydrolysis of these cyclic tertiary amides (i.e., the corresponding secondary amines) were found at substantial levels, it appears that oxidative A-monodealkylation is not an essential step for hydrolysis in these compounds, in contrast to the findings for A,A-diethylbenzamide. This contradicts the hypothesis [52] (see above) that the steric bulk of the tertiary amide group impedes direct hydrolysis. Here, although the degree of steric bulk is at least comparable, direct hydrolysis clearly takes place. 

A number of thermodynamic studies of Ni[R-dtp)2 adducts with amines have been described H2,i43,is6,is8) Daktemieks and Graddon ) have measiued the enthalpies of addition of pyridine, 4-picoline, 2,2 -dipyridyl and 2,9-dime-thyl-l,10-phenanthroline to Ni[ethyl-dtp]2 and pyridine to Nilpropyl-dtpJj. The sums of the stepwise enthalpies for pyridine addition to the ethyl and... 

Although there have been few new developments in the period since 1993, halogenopyrazines 42 have been convenient precursors for a variety of pyrazine derivatives. For example, the halogenopyrazines 42 are cyanated by palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with alkali cyanide or by treatment with copper cyanide in refluxing picoline, to yield cyanopyrazines 48. Alkoxypyrazines 49 are produced by treatment with alkoxide-alcohol, and aminopyrazines 50 are prepared by amination with ammonia or appropriate amines. The nucleophilic substitution of chloropyrazine with sodium alkoxide, phenoxide, alkyl- or arylthiolate is efficiently effected under focused microwave irradiation <2002T887>. 

The polarographic experimental and calculated curves of complex formation with the following ligands N, Ai -bis(2-pyridyl methyl)- ,2-diaminoethane [118], picolinic acid [119], Ai-(2-hydroxyethyl)ethylenedi-amine [120], 1-hydroxyethylenediphospho-nic acid [121], and Ai-(2-hydroxyethyl)imi-nodiacetic acid [122] was used for modeling the Cd(II)-Kgand systems. The stoichiometry and stability constants of formed complexes were evaluated. The same method was used for determinations of stability constants of Cd(II) complexes with monoaza-12-crown-4 ether in aqueous solution in the presence of an excess of sodium ions [123]. 

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