Pyridine A oxides

The reactions of pyridine A -oxides are of great interest, differing significantly from those of both neutral pyridines and pyridinium salts. 

Many methods are available for the removal of oxygen from A-oxides samarium iodide, chromous chloride, stannous chloride with low-valent titanium, ammonium formate with palladium, and catalytic hydrogenation all do the job at room temperature. The most frequently used methods have involved oxygen transfer to trivalent phosphorus or divalent sulfur.  

Pyridine A -oxides protonate and are alkylated at oxygen stable salts can be isolated in some cases. Hot aqueous sodium hydroxide treatment of alkoxypyridinium salts produces aldehydes corresponding to the alkoxy substituent. 

Electrophilic nitration and bromination of pyridine iV-oxides can be controlled to give 4-substituted products by way of attack on the free A -oxide. Under conditions where the A -oxide is 0-protonated, substitution follows the typical pyridine/pyridinium reactivity pattern, thus in fuming sulfuric acid bromination shows P-regioselectivity mercuration, however, takes place at the a-position.  

Comparable addition/ring openings can be observed with 1-alkoxypyridini-however prior acylation at the N-oxide oxygen before addition of alkyl or aryl Grignard or acetylide leads through to 2-substituted-pyridines.  

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For oximes, the word oxime is placed after the name of the aldehyde or ketone. If the carbonyl group is not the principal group, use the prefix hydroxyimino-. Compounds with the group Z = N—OR are named by a prefix alkyloxyimino- as oxime O-ethers or as O-substituted oximes. Compounds with the group r C=N(0)R are named by adding A-oxide after the name of the alkylideneaminc compound. For amine oxides, add the word oxide after the name of the base, with locants. For example, C5H5N—O is named pyridine A-oxide or pyridine 1-oxide. 

Pyridine A Oxides. Analgesic and antiinflammatory dmgs niflumic acid [4394-00-7] (68) and pranoprofen [52549-17-4] (69) are manufactured from nicotinic acid N-oxide [2398-81 -4]. The antiulcer dmg omeprazole (66) is produced from 2,3,5-trimethylpyridine N-oxide [74409-42-0]. Zinc pyrithione, the zinc salt of pyrithione (45), is a fungicide derived from 2-chloropyridine N-oxide (45). 

In addition to their reactions with amines, Zincke salts also combine with other nitrogen nucleophiles, providing various A -substituted pyridine derivatives. Pyridine A -oxides result from the reaction with hydroxylamine, as exemplified for the conversion of Zincke salt 38 to the A -oxide 39 Reactions of Zincke salts with hydrazine, meanwhile, lead... 

The amination of 2-chloropyridine-A-oxide (53) with potassium amide in liquid ammonia yielded a mixture of 2-(55) and 3-amino-pyridine-A-oxide (56) in 5-10% total yield.This rearrangement might be explained by an aryne mechanism involving 2,3-pyridyne-A-oxide (54). Since the structure of 56, with its quaternary nitrogen atom, is more analogous to that of 3-methoxybenzyne (39) than to that of 2,3-pyridyne (26), an orientation effect directing the amide ion to C-3 can be expected here. 

Acylation with acetyl chloride (giving 94) or protonation permits rapid displacement of the nitro group from 4-nitropyridine A-oxide by the weakly nucleophilic chloride Pyridine A-oxide... 

Pyridines and pyridine A -oxides as additives in asymmetric catalysis 99AG(E)1570. 

HgCl2(pyridine A -oxide), 2, 496 HgCsH9N2P Hg(CN)2(PMe3), 5, 1081 HgC6F i8N4... 

West and colleagues206 have reported the initial examples involving a N -> O/S -> O mixed donor ligand such as 2-(ethylsulphinyl)pyridine A-oxide for transition metal ion and lanthanide metal ion as shown in Scheme 22. Crystal field parameters based on... 

Compared with esters, acid halides and anhydrides are more reactive and are hydrolyzed more readily. It is interesting to note that there is a substantial lifetime for these acid derivatives in aqueous media. Acid halides dissolved in PhCl or in PhBr shaken at a constant rate with water shows that hydrolysis occurs at the boundary between the two liquid phases.35 The reaction of benzoyl chloride (PhCOCl) and benzoate ion with pyridine A-oxide (PNO) as the inverse phase-transfer catalyst yields both the substitution product (benzoic anhydride) and the... 

Hexamethyldisilazane, Pyridine /V-oxide See Pyridine A-oxide Hexamethyldisilazane, etc. 

Dioxo-ruthenium porphyrin (19) undergoes epoxidation.69 Alternatively, the complex (19) serves as the catalyst for epoxidation in the presence of pyridine A-oxide derivatives.61 It has been proposed that, under these conditions, a nms-A-oxide-coordinated (TMP)Ru(O) intermediate (20) is generated, and it rapidly epoxidizes olefins prior to its conversion to (19) (Scheme 8).61 In accordance with this proposal, the enantioselectivity of chiral dioxo ruthenium-catalyzed epoxidation is dependent on the oxidant used.55,61 In the iron porphyrin-catalyzed oxidation, an iron porphyrin-iodosylbenzene adduct has also been suggested as the active species.70... 

Pyridine A-oxides were converted to tetrazolo[l,5-a]pyridines 172 by heating in the presence sulfonyl or phosphoryl azides and pyridine in the absence of solvent <06JOC9540>. 3-R-5-Trinitromethyltetrazolo[l,5-a]-l,3,5-triazin-7-ones 173 have been prepared from the alkylation of 5-trinitromethyltetrazolo[l,5-a]-l,3,5-triazin-7-one silver salt with different alkylation agents <06CHE417>. The use of 2-fluorophenylisocyanide in the combinatorial Ugi-tetrazole reaction followed by a nucleophilic aromatic substitution afforded tricylic tetrazolo[l,5-a]quinoxaline 174 in good yields and with high diversity <06TL2041>. 

Both pyridinium salts and pyridine A-oxides are of increased interest as chiral catalysts in organic reactions. Connon and Yamada independently designed and examined pyridinium salts as chiral catalysts in the acylation of secondary alcohols <06OBC2785 06JOC6872>. These two catalysts can be used for kinetic resolution of various sec-alcohols and uf/-diols in good to moderate enantiomeric excess. 

Pyridine A-oxides have been utilized as asymmetric catalysts in the allylation of aldehydes <06JOC1458> and in the Strecker reaction <06T4071>. In the latter, the chiral A-oxides played a key role in the initial activation of the Si-C bond by coordinating an O atom to the Si atom of silyl cyanide and stabilizing the three-membered complex proposed by the... 

Pro-chiral pyridine A-oxides have also been used as substrates in asymmetric processes. Jprgensen and co-workers explored the catalytic asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reaction between ketene silyl acetals 61 and pyridine A-oxide carboxaldehydes 62 <06CEJ3472>. The process is catalyzed by a copper(II)-bis(oxazoline) complex 63 which gave good yields and diastereoselectivities with up to 99% enantiomeric excess. 

Actinides activate pyridine A-oxides to yield cyclometallated products. This may open up new synthetic opportunities (Equation (82)).77... 

Both compounds were tested for their catalytic activity in asymmetric aziridination using p-toluenesullbnic anhydride (TS2O) to activate the nitridomanganese complex. As shown in Scheme 4-60, the aziridination generally gave poor results, while addition of pyridine A-oxide improved both the yield and the enantiomeric excess of the products. 

Intriguingly, the Stille coupling of quaternary pyridylstannane 12 with 2-chloropyrazine (13) proceeded to afford adduct 14 [12]. A-Methylated 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine 12 was easily prepared by refluxing 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine (11) with methyl tosylate in EtOAc. By contrast, only 29% yield of the coupling adduct was isolated from the Stille reaction of 3-(tributylstannyl)pyridine A-oxide and 13. 

These high field values occur also in nitrones such as Ph—N(0)=CH—Ph (at 377 ppm) and pyridine A-oxide (349 ppm). 

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