Pyridate

Types i and ii are the most important. An essential difference between them is that in type i both tautomers can be aromatic [e.g., pyrid-2-one (16) and 2-hydroxypyridine (17) both satisfy the criteria for aromaticity and have large resonance energies], whereas in type ii at least one tautomer, that corresponding to 3, is nonaromatic [e.g., 3-hydroxyfuran (18) is aromatic, but furan-3-one (19) is not]. In... 

To illustrate the elucidation of tautomeric equilibria using basicity measurements, the following data for pyrid-4-one may be con-... 

The electronic spectrum of a compound arises from its 7r-electron system which, to a first approximation, is unaffected by substitution of an alkyl group for a hydrogen atom. Thus, comparison of the ultraviolet spectrum of a potentially tautomeric compound with the spectra of both alkylated forms often indicates which tautomer predominates. For example, Fig. 1 shows that 4-mercaptopyridine exists predominantly as pyrid-4-thione. In favorable cases, i.e., when the spectra of the two alkylated forms are very different and/or there are appreciable amounts of both forms present at equilibrium, the tautomeric constant can be evaluated. By using this method, it was shown, for example, that 6-hydroxyquinoline exists essentially as such in ethanol but that it is in equilibrium with about 1% of the zwitterion form in aqueous solution (Fig. 2). 

The determination of the structure of adenine hydrochloride (see Volume 2, Section IV,K, of article IV by Katritzky and Lagowski) is an example of extremely accurate X-ray crystallography whereby the positions of individual hydrogen atoms were located. An example of the deduction of structure from bond lengths between heavy atoms is provided by Penfold s investigation of pyrid-2-thione. ... 

Dipole moment data have provided valuable information for the study of the tautomerism of compounds such as isonicotinic acid, pyrid-4-one, and ethyl acetoacetate, However, this method must be used with discretion since it can lead to inconclusive results. Thus, the fact that 4-aminopyridine has a higher dipole moment than the algebraic sum of the dipole moments of pyridine and aniline was originally interpreted as proof that structure 54 exists with a strong contribution from 36, and it was stated that 55 w ould have a very low moment. Later, Angyal and AngyaF pointed out that the... 

Hoffman and Gronowitz - have applied this technique with marked success to the study of hydroxy-, amino-, and mercapto-thiophenes. Similarly, it has been shown that pyrid-4-one exists predominantly as such and that 4-hydroxypyridine 1-oxide is in equilibrium with comparable amounts of l-hydroxypyrid-4-one. - The method has also been used to investigate the structure of ions (see Section II,C, of article II by Katritzky and Lagowski). 

Molar refractivity is an additive property, and the predominant tautomer can be found by comparing the experimentally determined value with that calculated for the alternative forms. For example, Auwers used this method to demonstrate that pyrid-2-one exists as such and not as 2-hydroxypyridine. 

In 1951, Witkop et al. interpreted the infrared spectra of quinol-2-and -4-ones to favor the oxo formulation. Since then, many investigators, especially Mason, have reported that potential a- and y-hydroxy compounds show infrared absorption bands in the vN—H (3500-3360 cm ) and vC—O (1780-1550 cm ) regions of the spectrum and, hence, exist predominantly in the oxo form references to this work appear in Table I. A study of the bands which occur in the NH-stretching region of the infrared spectra of a series of substituted pyrid-2-ones and quinol-2-ones also supported an oxo formulation for these compounds. Detailed band assignments have been published for pyrid-2- and -4-one. Mason has reported that solutions of j8-hydroxy compounds in chloroform or carbon tetrachloride show... 

The foregoing conclusions are further supported by a refined X-ray analysis of pyrid-2-one, which indicated that the mobile hydrogen atom is attached to the nitrogen atom in the solid state and that individual molecules are bound into helices by N—H- -0 hydrogen bonds. An oxo structure is also indicated by the molar refractivity of pyrid-2-one. The dipole moment of 4-methoxypyridine is ca. 3.0 debyes in dioxane, whereas the values for pyrid-4-one and its 1-methyl derivative are much higher, ca. 6.0 debyes indicating the... 

The theory of mesomerism leads to the prediction that cations of type 31-e- 32 should be greatly stabilized relative to those of type 33, and their predominance has nearly always been assumed. The similarity among the ultraviolet spectra of the cations formed by 4-methoxypyridine, l-methylpyrid-4-one, and pyrid-4-one was taken to support such assumptions, which are, indeed, implicit in obtaining... 

Between 1951 and 1953 investigations by three English groups clearly demonstrated the preponderance of the oxo forms of pyrimidin-2- and -4-ones by comparing the ultraviolet spectra of these compounds with those of the N and 0-alkylated derivatives, The o-quinonoid form 91 (R = H) is favored by the evidence that A -methylation of the 6-methyl derivative of 89a does not cause a bathochromic shift in the ultraviolet spectrum (A -methylation of pyrid-4-one causes a bathochromic shift, but this is not observed for pyrid-2-one) The isomeric A -methyl derivatives of pyrimidin-4-ones [e.g., 91 (R = Me) and 90 (R = Me)] form similar cations (e.g., 92 and 93), and hence the equilibrium constant between... 

In 1951, pyrid-4-thione was concluded from ultraviolet spectral data to exist predominantly as such in ethanolic solution,but no comparisons were made and this conclusion had to be considered as tentative. Pyrid-2-thione has been shown by X-ray crystallography to exist as hydrogen-bonded dimers (201) in the solid state, the posi-... 

English and Australian investigators showed simultaneously that the pyrid-2- and -4-thione forms predominate in aqueous solution by factors of ca. 10 (see Table V) by comparative studies of these... 

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