Prototropic

For further details and examples of prototropic tautomerism in pyridazines and condensed pyridazines, see (63AHC(1)339, B-76MI21200). 

The most characteristic coupling constant in indazoles is the cross-ring Vs, present both in indazoles and in isoindazoles unsubstituted in positions 3 and 7. 2-Methyl isomers show an additional Vmc.h coupling which can serve to identify an isoindazole unsubstituted in position 3. In 3-azidoindazole, as in 3-azidopyrazole (56), the prototropic exchange is slowed down sufficiently to allow the measurement of a zig-zag /i,4 coupling constant. The deshielding effects observed in A-acetyl derivatives, e.g. 1-acetyl (60) on H-7 and 2-acetyl (61) on H-3, are related to a preferred E conformation (Section 4.04.1.4.3). 

After the publication of a book on the prototropic tautomerism of aromatic heterocycles (76AHC(Sl)l) which covered the literature up to 1975, the study of the tautomerism of pyrazoles has not made great strides. In this section the main conclusions of this earlier review will be summarized and comments on a few recent and significant references added. 

An account of non-prototropic tautomerism (mainly annular metallotropy) and nonaromatic functional tautomerism will also be included. 

About 90% of all the studies on tautomerism refer to the determination of prototropic equilibrium constants in solution. Most probably in the next years there will be further studies in the remaining areas, some of them almost a desert at the present time. 

A well-known example of non-prototropic tautomerism is that of azolides (acylotropy). The acyl group migrates between the different heteroatoms and the most stable isomer (annular or functional) is obtained after equilibration. In indazoles both isomers are formed, but 2-acyl derivatives readily isomerize to the 1-substituted isomer. The first order kinetics of this isomerization have been studied by NMR spectroscopy (74TL4421). The same publication described an experiment (Scheme 8) that demonstrated the intermolecular character of the process, which has been called a dissociation-recombination process. 

Tautomerism has been discussed in Section 4.04.1.5.2. It concerns prototropic tautomerism and the decreasing order of stability is (hydrazone) >A (azo)> A (enehydrazine). The isomerization A -> A occurs via a A -pyrazoline (65BSF769). Pyrazolidones and amino-A -pyrazolines exist as such. The only example of non-prototropic tautomerism deals with the isomerization (403) —> (404) (74CJC3474). This intramolecular process is another example (Section 4.04.1.5) of the thermodynamic analogy between prototropy and metallotropy. 

Prototropic tautomerism of isoxazole derivatives has been well studied over a number of years and has recently been reviewed in context with similar behavior in other five-membered heterocycles (70C134, 76AHC(Sl)l, 79AHC(25)147, p. 202). Several generalizations are summarized below. 

Protoporphyrin-IX, N-methyl-, 4, 396 Protoporphyrins, 4, 382 photooxygenation, 4, 402 Prototropic tautomerism polyheteroatom six-membered rings, 3, 1055 Prozapine properties, 7, 545 Pschorr reaction carbolines from, 4, 523 dibenzazepines from, 7, 533 dibenzothiophenes from, 4, 107 phenanthridines from, 2, 433 Pseudilin, pentabromo-synthesis, 1, 449 Pseudoazulene synthesis, 4, 526 Pseudobases in synthesis reviews, 1, 62 Pseudocyanines, 2, 331 Pseudothiohydantoin synthesis, 6, 296 Pseudouracil structure, 3, 68 Pseudoyangonin IR spectra, 3, 596 Pseudoyohimbine synthesis, 2, 271 Psicofuranine biological activity, 5, 603 as pharmaceutical, 1, 153, 160... 

A simple preparative route to the previously unknown lH-3-pyrazolines via azomethine imines was developed. Olefins of the type R cH=CHR react with hexafiuoroacetone azine to give azomethine mines, which undergo a sequence of prototropic shifts to form 17/-3-pyrazolines [196, 202], On heating, the latter are transformed into 3-trifluoromethylpyrazoles [196, 206] and, on treatment with bases, into 1,2,5,6-tetrahydropynmidines [206] (equation 45)... 

The mechanism of the indolization of aniline 5 with methylthio-2-propanone 6 is illustrated below. Aniline 5 reacts with f-BuOCl to provide A-chloroaniline 9. This chloroaniline 9 reacts with sulfide 6 to yield azasulfonium salt 10. Deprotonation of the carbon atom adjacent to the sulfur provides the ylide 11. Intramolecular attack of the nucleophilic portion of the ylide 11 in a Sommelet-Hauser type rearrangement produces 12. Proton transfer and re-aromatization leads to 13 after which intramolecular addition of the amine to the carbonyl function generates the carbinolamine 14. Dehydration of 14 by prototropic rearrangement eventually furnishes the indole 8. 

On the other hand, the electron-attracting properties (—I and —M) of the 2-thienyl groups should also facilitate prototropic reactions, where the rate-determining step is the removal of a proton from the a-carbon and which thus is facilitated by electron-attracting sub-... 

It is thus obvious that the 2-thienyl group is both a better electron donator and electron acceptor than the phenyl group, facilitating both nucleophilic and prototropic reactions at the a-methylene carbon. 

The situation is similar for the derivatives obtained from the bases by the action of various nucleophilic agents. These derivatives can also be considered as ring-chain prototropic systems. There is also... 

The reaction products formed by other nucleophilic reagents (e.g., amino compounds or carbanions derived from carbonyl or nitaro compounds) can be considered as ring chain prototropic systems. The newly formed C—or C—bond in the cyclic form of these compounds is more or less polar (evidence for this is the sensitivity to... 

General accounts of prototropic tautomerism have been presented by Ingold and Baker" these include an outline of the historical development of the subject in which heteroaromatic compounds are discussed incidentally, and, therefore, such a historical account will not be given here. Of historical interest are Eistert s book on tautomerism and mesomerism which was published in 1938, a review on — NH-CO— tautomerism by Arndt and Eistert published in 1938, and Heller s account of heterocyclic tautomerism which appeared in 1925. Although more recent works on heterocyclic chemistry (e.g., references 9-11) have dealt incidentally with tautomerism, no unified... 

Prototropic Tautomerism of Heteroaromatic Compounds I, General Discussion and Methods of Study... 

Prototropic Tautomerism of Heteroaromatic Compounds II. Six-Membered Rings... 

Prototropic Tautomerism of Heteroaromatic Compounds III. Five-Membered Rings and One Hetero Atom A. R. Katritzky and J. M. Lagowski... 

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