Pyrazole, reduction

The pyrazole ring is resistant to oxidation and reduction. Only ozonolysis, electrolytic oxidations, or strong base can cause ring fission. On photolysis, pyrazoles undergo an unusual rearrangement to yield imidazoles via cleavage of the N —N2 bond, followed by cyclization of the radical iatermediate to azirine (27). 

Azole 7V-oxide groups are readily removed by reduction with Zn/HOAc, HI or PCI3, e.g. in the pyrazole series. 1,2,3-Thiadiazole 3-oxides isomerize on irradiation to the corresponding 2-oxides. 

Only two topics are of importance for this section the reduction of pyrazolium salts and 3-pyrazolin-5-ones by complex hydrides, and the nucleophilic photosubstitution of pyrazoles and indazoles. 

A -Pyrazolines are obtained by the reduction of pyrazoles with sodium and alcohol, by catalytic hydrogenation on palladium or by electrochemical means (B-76MI40402). In some cases the reduction proceeds further yielding pyrazolidines and open-chain compounds. 

Besides the salts (458) and (459) previously described, aminopyrazolium salts can be obtained from the reaction between amines and chloropyrazolium salts (Section 4.04.2.3.7(ii)) or by quaternization of iminopyrazplines as in (461)—> (462) (72BSF2807). The lithium aluminum hydride reduction of the salt (462) affords mixtures of reduced and open-chain pyrazoles (Figure 23 Section 4.04.2.1.6(i)). 

Pyrazole, 3-ethoxycarbonyl-3 (5 ),5-dimethyl-5 (3 )-pyrazol-l-yl-reduction, 5, 260 Pyrazole, ethynyl-reactions, 5, 261 Pyrazole, 4-formyl-IR spectra, S, 201 NMR... 

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... 

Pyrazolo[3,4-c]pyrazole, tetrahydro-rearrangement, 5, 250 Pyrazolo[4,3-c]pyrazole, tetraaryl-electrophilic substitution, 6, 1035 oxidation, 6, 1034-1035 reduction, 6, 1035 vacuum pyrolysis, 6, 1035 Pyrazolo[ 1,2-n]pyrazole-1,5-diones synthesis, 6, 991 Pyrazolo[ 1,2-n]pyrazoles reactions, 6, 1038 ring opening, 6, 983... 

Ravindranath and co-workers studied the electrochemical behavior of 5-amino-2-phenyl-4-arylazo-l,2-dihydro-3//-pyrazol-3-one (90UC864) and 5-methyl-4-arylazo-2-(pyridin-2-ylcarbonyl)-2,4-dihydro-3//-pyrazol-3-(Mie (90IJC895). Similar studies were undertaken by Jain and Damodharan of pyrazol-3-ones 408a-f (95CJC176) (Scheme 94). The underlying rationale for this study on the electrochemical reduction of these biologically important pyrazol-3-ones is that it can lead to information on the reaction routes and mechanisms of biological redox reactions. 

However, attempts to couple (A-acetyl)-4-iodopyrazole 36 under the same conditions withphenylacetylene,p-methoxyphenylacetylene, andoct-l-yne, once again, were unsuccessful, instead, reductive deiodination to give 5-(iV-acetylamino)-3-methyl-l-ethylpyrazole and homo-coupling of alk-l-yne occurred (Scheme 49). The isomeric 3-(A-acetylamino)pyrazole 37 was somewhat less inclined to deiodination. 

However, in the presence of the electron-withdrawing nitro group, hydration occurs already under the conditions of its reduction. In this case, the direction of addition of the water molecule is preserved. The yield of l-methyl-4-phenylacetyl-pyrazole was 90% [99JCS(P1)3713] (Scheme 87). 

Makriyannis and Liu claimed a series of pyrazole analogues in a patent application published in 2003 [272]. Of the 29 compounds specifically exemplified in the patent application, compound (389) was demonstrated to reduce lever presses when administered to rats that were trained to expect delivery of a food pellet as the outcome. It was proposed that the reduction in lever pressing was the result of decreased appetite brought about by CBi receptor antagonism. 

Pyrazolo[l,2- ][l,2,3]triazole mesomeric betaines are generally available by an electrophilic attack of singlet nitrenes on the pyrazole nitrogen atom. When phthalazone derivative 252 is used and the nitrene is generated by reduction with triethyl phosphite, 59% yield of mesomeric betaine 253 is obtained (Equation 40) <2000T5523>. 

Literature reports on diazaquinones derived from o-benzoquinone are very rare. Compound 74 was suggested to be a common intermediate formed during heating of 2,5-bis(diazo)-3,4-diketoadipate 73 with isopropanol and with various bases (76T269). Direct reduction of the intermediate with isopropanol provided pyridazine 75. A base-catalyzed benzilic acid rearrangement of 74 followed by decarboxylation of 76 afforded pyrazole 77 (Scheme 18). 

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