Properties and Transformations

The chemical behaviour of IPs is determined not only by the chemical properties of the imidazole and pyridine rings separately, but also by intramolecular interaction effects (electronic and steric) that arise between the rings in the fused systems. These effects strongly depend both on the electronic condition of the substrate (neutral molecule, cation or anion) and on the geometrical orientation of the rings. IP s behaviour in various reactions will be considered below. We will also examine the behaviour of related heterocycles (for example, pyridine, isoquinoline or triazolo [4,5-c]pyridine, etc.) to illustrate the general or particular character of the IP s properties. 

Primary consideration must be given to a description of tautomerism and relative basicity of the nitrogen atoms in IPs, because many reactions depend on these characteristics. 

Only one of the possible tautomeric forms is likely to dominate for each IbP and IcP molecule due to their electronic and geometric asymmetry. 

A comparison of the UV spectra of IbP 1 with those of its N-methylated derivatives simulating fixed tautomers (1-methyl- or 3-methyl-IbP) in neutral solvents (cyclohexane, alcohol) is not sufficient for a confident conclusion on the predominant tautomeric form of IbP molecule existing in solution, because the difference in spectra of various tautomeric forms is negligible (71KG1436). The same is true for comparison of the spectra of IcP and 1- and 3-methyl-IcPs. 

The approach based on a comparison of dipole moments (d.m.) of IbP 1 and its N-methyl analogues as models of tautomeric forms proved to be useful. Preliminary estimation of the d.m. for 1-H and 3-H forms of IbP calculated by summing the known d.m. of pyridine (2.21 D) and imidazole (4.01 D) (71 MI3) gave a resulting d.m. value of 2.02D for 3H-IbP and 6.14D for IH-IbP. That is, proton migration from N-3 to N-1 in IbP is accompanied by a reorientation of the resultant moment and a sharp increase of d.m. value (the difference is 4.12 D). Calculations using the accepted bond moments gave a total d.m of 6D for 4-methyl-IbP. 

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