Pyrazine 1,4-dioxide chlorides

Palamidessi and Bernardi have obtained 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide by mild treatment of pyrazine 1,4-dioxide with phosphoryl chloride. The structure of the 1-oxide was confirmed by hydrolysis to 2-hydroxy-pyrazine 1-oxide, which was also prepared by direct synthesis from glyoxal and glycine hydroxamic acid.398 This synthesis is illustrative of a general method for preparing 2-hydroxypyrazine 1-oxides by condensation of a,/3-dicarbonyl compounds with a-aminohydroxamic acids. An analogous synthesis of 2-aminopyrazine 1-oxides has already... 

Pyrazine 1,4-dioxide reacts exothermically with phosphoryl chloride if, after the initial reaction has subsided, reaction is completed by heating under reflux, 2,6-dichloropyrazine is obtained.301,362 Elina and Musatova report that reaction of the dioxide with benzene sulfonyl chloride gives 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide, m.p. 131°-132°, in low yield.406 A melting point of 140w—146° has been reported by previous workers for this compound.398... 

The strong base-weakening effect of an A-oxide substituent upon a para-situated sp nitrogen atom is exemplified by a comparison of the of pyrazine [0.65 (122)] with that of pyrazine A-oxide [0.05 (745)]. The pKg of 3-methylpyrazine 1-oxide is 0.46 (745). Pyrazine A-oxides form salts thus 2,5-dimethylpyrazine A-oxide forms 1 1 addition products with hydrogen chloride, methyl iodide, and benzyl chloride (625). Thermodynamic parameters for the second protonation of tetramethylpyrazine 1,4-dioxide have been determined from measurements at 25, 40,60,80, and 90° (746). 

Matsuura and co-workers (756) have reexamined the reactions of the A -oxides of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine and found that 2,5-dimethylpyrazine di-A -oxide (29) when heated with phosphoryl chloride at 160° gave 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (6%) (30), 3-chloro-2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (5%) (31), and 5-chloromethyl-2-methylpyrazine 1 -oxide (9%) (32). In addition small amounts of other chlorinated products, 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-5-methylpyrazine (33) and 2,5-bischloromethyl-pyrazine (34), were identified. These authors also examined the action of p-tosyl chloride, methane sulfonyl chloride, and mixtures of phosphoryl chloride and concentrated sulfuric acid, but state that these did not give good results. Pyrazine 1-oxide and phosphoryl chloride have been shown to give 2reaction conditions it gave 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (757). Pyrazine 1,4-dioxide and benzenesulfonyl chloride also gave a low yield of 2-chloropyrazine 1-oxide (758). 

Dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1,4-dioxide with phosphoryl chloride at 170° gave 2,5-dichloro-3,6-bis(chloromethyl)pyrazine and 2,5-dichloro-3-chloromethyl-6-methylpyrazine 1-oxide and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide gave 2,5-dichloro-3-chloromethyl-6-methylpyrazine (756). 

D. By Reaction of Pyrazine 1,4-Dioxide with Phosphoryl Chloride (and Other Acid Chlorides)... 

The preparation of certain halogenopyrazine 7V-oxides from pyrazine 1,4-dioxide with phosphoryl chloride (and othe r acid chlorides) has been described in Section 1G. 

Bauer and Hirsch (764) found that 2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1-oxide refiuxed for 2 hours with propane-1-thiol in acetic anhydride gave 2,5-dimethyl-3-propylthio-pyrazine (5), and 2,5-dimethylpyrazine 1,4-dioxide similarly treated gave 2,5-dimethyl-3,6-dipropylthiopyrazine, but attempted reactions with benzenesulfonyl chloride instead of acetic anhydride (as in the pyridine series) were unsuccessful. 

Dehydrogenations of piperazines to pyrazines have been described in Section II.6, and the conversion of piperazine over catalysts (e.g., CuO) to give mostly pyrazine (90-94%) has been studied (1718). The oxidation of 1,4-diphenylpiperazine with manganese dioxide in chloroform at 20° to yield A, A -diformyl-A(, -diphenyl-ethylenediamine has been reported (1719). Formylpiperazines have been reported as formylating agents. Thiophene, 1,4-diformylpiperazine, and phosphoryl chloride are reported to give 2-formylthiophene (1720). 

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