Chloro pyrazines

Pyrazine, l,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)-l,4-dihydro-synthesis, 3, 178 Pyrazine, 3-s-butyl-2-methoxy-occurrenoe, 3, 193 Pyrazine, chloro-reactions... 

In the case of phenazine, substitution in the hetero ring is clearly not possible without complete disruption of the aromatic character of the molecule. Like pyrazine and quinoxa-line, phenazine is very resistant towards the usual electrophilic reagents employed in aromatic substitution reactions and substituted phenazines are generally prepared by a modification of one of the synthetic routes employed in their construction from monocyclic precursors. However, a limited range of substitution reactions has been reported. Thus, phenazine has been chlorinated in acid solution with molecular chlorine to yield the 1-chloro, 1,4-dichloro, 1,4,6-trichloro and 1,4,6,9-tetrachloro derivatives, whose gross structures have been proven by independent synthesis (53G327). 

It would appear that this type of addition may not be confined to the addition of NH2 in liquid ammonia, since it has been observed that treatment of 2-chloro-3-dichloromethyl-pyrazine with an excess of methoxide results in the introduction of a methoxy group into the 6-position of the pyrazine ring (Scheme 9) (68TL5931). This reaction is best rationalized in terms of addition of the methoxide ion at the 6-position, followed by loss of chloride ion from the dichloromethyl side chain. 

H-Pyrido[2,l-i]purine-9-carboxylic acid, 7-oxo-methyl ester, 5, 566 Pyrido[2,3-6]pyrazine, amino-nucleophilic attack, 3, 253 Pyrido[2,3-h]pyrazine, 6-chloro-reactions... 

The quaternization of pyrazine compounds has not been extensively studied, and, therefore, a detailed discussion of the effect of substituents is not possible. Recently Cheeseman has shown, from spectroscopic evidence, that 2-amino- and 2-diethylamino-pyrazine (50, Y = NH2 and NEt2) quatemize at N-4, although protonation occurs at position-1. Other substituted pyrazines from which quaternary salts of structure 51 are formed include 2-chloro- and 2-... 

Comparison of the ortho and para indirect deactivation in 155 and 156 with that in 151 and 152 would reveal the relative effectiveness of the two effects and the influence of the ring-position. Additional examples of deactivation are ortho indirect in 2-chloro-6-methoxy-pyrazine ortho direct in 4-chloro-5-methoxypyrimidine para direct in 2-chloro-5-methoxypyrimidine ortho and para indirect in the... 

Cyclization of (25)-2-(rerc-butoxycarbonylaminomethyl)-l-(2-chloro-acetyl)piperidine on the action of NaH in THF gave (9aS)-2-(rerc-butoxycarbonyl)perhydropyrido[l,2-a]pyrazin-4-one (99H(51)2065). 3-Benzyl-2,3,4,4 ,5,6-hexahydro-l//-pyrazino[l,2-a]quinolin-l-ones 413... 

A mixture of 1- and 3-chloro, 1,3-dichloro, and 1,3,5-trichloro derivatives was obtained on chlorination of imidazo[l, 5-a]pyrazine (172). Bromination gave similar results (75JHC207,75JOC3373 84MI24). The 8-chloro compound is best made from the 8-oxy derivative of 172. When the 1-bromo-3-methyl derivative of 172 was treated in turn with aqueous bromine and excess dilute caustic soda, the pyrazine ring was destroyed to give 4-bromo-2-methylimidazole-5-aldehyde (75JOC3373). 

In [l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine (174) bromination took place at the 5-position rather than in the triazole ring (77JOC4197). It was not possible to convert the 3-hydroxy derivative into the 3-chloro analogue (68JHC485). The isomeric [1,5-a] compound (175) was also brominated at C-5 (74TL4539), whereas its 7-oxide gave the 8-chloro derivative under Meisenheimer conditions [80JCS(P1)506]. 

Isoxazolo[4,5-6]pyrazine (176) is resistant to electrophilic halogenation because the potentially reactive site is at the ring junction. The 7-oxide, though, was converted into the 6-chloro derivative of 176 on heating with phosphoryl chloride (73JHC181). 

Chemoselective cyanation in the C-3 position of 3,5-dichloro-N-(4-methoxybenzyl)-pyrazin-2(lH)-one has been described by Van der Eycken et al. [27]. The procedure is similar to that reported by Alterman and Hallberg. The only difference is that CuCN was selected as transmetal-lating agent instead of Zn(CN)2. When a mixture of 3,5-dichloro-N-(4-methoxybenzyl)-pyrazin-2(lH)-one and CuCN in DMF, using Pd(PPh3)4 as a catalyst, was irradiated for 15 min at 200 °C, the desired 5-chloro-3-cyano-N-(4-methoxybenzyl)pyrazin-2(lff)-one could be isolated with a 68% yield (Scheme 69). 

Because silylation with HMDS 2/TCS 14 in acetonitrile at ambient temperature converts the unreactive a-chloroketone moiety of 743 into an /Z-mixture of reactive alkyl 4-chloro-3-trimethylsilyloxycrotonates 746a, b [230, 231] which can be isolated and distilled, if humidity is excluded, silylation of 743a, b in the presence of ami dine salts such as 745 gives the desired ethyl or methyl imidazole(4,5)-acetates 748a, b via IMz and 747b. The reaction of formamidine acetate with 746a,b affords 745 (with R=H) in up to 70% yield [232, 233] (Scheme 5.79). As side reactions one must, e.g., take into account the reaction of 746 with ammonia to give 755 which subsequently dimerizes to the pyrazine 756, as discussed in Section 5.5.3. 

It has been discovered that direct chlorination of pyrazines can be accomplished and this has also been used to make candidate drugs. For example, when 2-methylpyrazine (120) is heated with chlorine in carbon tetrachloride, a mixture of the 3-chloro (121) and the 6-chloro derivatives result. After separation, 121 is heated with piperidine to give modaline (122), an antidepressant. 6... 

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