Pyrazole halogenation

Oxidation of N -substituted pyrazoles to 2-substituted pyrazole-l-oxides using various peracids (30) facilitates the introduction of halogen at C, followed by selective nitration at C. The halogen atom at or is easily removed by sodium sulfite and acts as a protecting group. Formaldehyde was... 

In azole chemistry the total effect of the several heteroatoms in one ring approximates the superposition of their separate effects. It is found that pyrazole, imidazole and isoxazole undergo nitration and sulfonation about as readily as nitrobenzene thiazole and isothiazole react less readily ica. equal to m-dinitrobenzene), and oxadiazoles, thiadiazoles, triazoles, etc. with great difficulty. In each case, halogenation is easier than the corresponding nitration or sulfonation. Strong electron-donor substituents help the reaction. 

A-Halogenated pyrazoles are unstable compounds (Cl>Br>I) that are seldom isolated. 1-Bromopyrazoles resemble NBS and may be important in the process of C-bromination, not because of an A to C rearrangement but by acting as a source of the powerfully electrophilic brominium ion (Section 4.04.2.1.4(v)). 4-Substituted pyrazoles can form... 

In the preceding parts of Section 4.04.2.1.3 the electrophilic attack on pyrazolic nitrogen with the concomitant formation of different classes of N—R bond has been examined N—H (iv, v), N—metal (vi), N—C(sp ) (vii, viii, xi), N—C(sp ) (be, x, xi), N—SO2R (x), N—halogen (xii), N—O (xiii) and N—-N (xiv). In this last part the reaction with other Lewis acids leading to the formation of pyrazole N—metalloid bonds will be discussed, and the study of their reactivity will be dealt with in Section 4.04.2.3.lO(viii). 

Halogenation is one of the most studied electrophilic substitutions in the pyrazole series (67HC(22)1, B-76MI40402). The results concern chlorination, bromination and iodination since there is no report on direct fiuorination of pyrazoles (fiuoropyrazoles are prepared by other... 

Bromine in chloroform and bromine in acetic acid are the reagents used most often to brominate pyrazole. When nitric acid is used as a solvent, both bromine and chlorine transform pyrazoles into pyrazolones (Scheme 24). Thus 3-methyl-l-(2,4-dinitrophe-nyOpyrazole is brominated at the 4-position (309). The product reacts with chlorine and nitric acid to give the pyrazolone (310). The same product results from the action of bromine and nitric acid on (311). The electrophilic attack of halogen at C-4 is followed by the nucleophilic attack of water at C-5 and subsequent oxidation by nitric acid. 

Pyrazole, C-formyl-conformation, 5, 209 Pyrazole, fluoro-reactions, 5, 263, 267 Pyrazole, 4-fluoro-5-hydroxy-tautomerism, 5, 214 Pyrazole, 1-germyl-synthesis, 5, 236 Pyrazole, halo-halogenation by, 5, 54 reactions, 5, 104, 105, 266 reduction, S, 105, 106, 266 Pyrazole, 3-halo-1-phenyl-quaternary salts... 

Pyrazole, 3-(trifluoromethyl)-4,5-trimethylene as amebicide, 5, 291 Pyrazole, 3-triflyl-4-phenyl-synthesis, 5, 282 Pyrazole, 1,3,4-triiodo-synthesis, 5, 234 Pyrazole, 1,3,5-trimethyl-isomerization, 5, 221 Pyrazole, 3,4,5-trimethyl-bromination, 5, 240 halogenation, 5, 89 reactions... 

Nitrilimines can be produced by treating halogenated hydrazones with a base such as triethylamine. These nitrilimines undergo 1,3 cycloaddition with enamines to form pyrazoles (181-183). This is shown by the reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with diphenyinitrilimine to... 

It is neeessary to emphasize that the direet amination of the methyl group at position 5 of pyrazoles is impossible. Neither 1,3,5-tiimethyl- nor4-ethynyl-l,3,5-trimethylpyrazole undergoes sueh transformations under the reaetion eonditions and starting materials are reeovered nearly quantitatively. Moreover, 4-bromo-ethynyl-l,3,5-trlmethyl- and 4-iodoethynyl-l,3,5-trimethylpyrazole with sodium amide in ammonia exehange the halogen for metal almost quantitatively and in this respeet are similar to phenylehloroaeetylene (Seheme 102). 

The halogen migration is completely suppressed by halogen-metal exchange when the chloroethynyl group is in position 5 of the pyrazole ring. The concentrations of 3-pyrazolyl and 4-pyrazolyl anions are probably small, and they cannot compete with NH2 anions for chlorine bonded to the acetylenic carbon. 

Because the reactive 4-position of pyrazole is substituted in indazole (benzo[b]pyrazole), substitution by electrophiles occurs by default in the 3-position initially, and then in the 5- and 7-positions of the fused benzene ring (ortho and para to the N-l). Anionic indazoles always halogenate at C-3 (84MI22). 

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