Pyridine and aromaticity

In aliphatic amines, the free electron pair on N is placed in an sp orbital, whereas in pyridine it is in an sp orbital [91], The sp electrons are more strongly attracted by the nucleus. Thus pyridine and aromatic amines are less suitable for donor—acceptor interactions. Methyl methacrylate does not polymerize with these compounds. The electron density on the styrene double bond is higher than in methyl methacrylate under the described conditions, styrene does not polymerize even in the presence of aliphatic amines [92]. 

Coordination-assisted aromatic arylation reactions using ruthenium [122-125] and rhodium [125, 126] catalysts have been reported. In the reactions, substrates having a neutral heteroatom such as pyridines and aromatic imines are usually employed and are reacted with aryl halides or arylmetal reagents. The palladium(II)-promoted arylation reaction of pyridines and imines having a tert-hutyl group with arylsilanes is also known (Eq. 51) [127]. The reaction proceeds via initial transmetalation to form a PhPd(II) species, which is coordinated by the substrate, and then one of the aliphatic C-H bonds is activated. 

Acyl halides, both aliphatic and aromatic, react with the sodium derivative, but the product depends largely on the solvent used. Thus acetyl chloride reacts with the sodium derivative (E) suspended in ether to give mainly the C-derivative (t) and in pyridine solution to give chiefly the O-derivative (2). These isomeric compounds can be readily distinguished, because the C-derivative (1) can still by enolisation act as a weak acid and is therefore... 

The experimental technique is similar to that given under Aromatic Amines, Section IV,100,2. The following alternative method may also be used. Mix together 0 -5-0 - 8 ml. of the polyhydroxy compound, 5 ml. of pyridine and 2 -5 ml. of redistilled benzoyl chloride in a 50 ml. flask. 

As early as 1889 Walker (320), using samples of thiazole, 2,4-dimethylthiazoie, pyridine, and 2,6-dimethylpyridine obtained from Hantzsch s laboratory, measured the electrical conductivity of their chlorhydrates and compared them with those of salts of other weak bases, especially quinoline and 2-methylquinoline. He observed the following order of decreasing proton affinity (basicity) quinaldine>2,6-dimethyl-pyridine>quinoline>pyridine>2,4-dimethylthiazole> thiazole, and concluded that the replacement of a nuclear H-atom by a methyl group enhanced the basicity of the aza-aromatic substrates. 

Aromatic thioamides can be prepared as described in the literature by different ways, either by S -> O exchange between the corresponding benzamides and phosphorus pentasulfide in pyridine solution in the presence of triethylamine (65, 646) as strong base, or by action of H2S on the appropriate nitrile with pyridine and triethylamine solvents using the method of Fairfull et al. (34, 374, 503). In this reaction, thioacetamide in acidic medium can also be used as a H2S generator with dimethylform-amide as the solvent (485). 

Many valuable chemicals can be recovered from the volatile fractions produced in coke ovens. Eor many years coal tar was the primary source for chemicals such as naphthalene [91-20-3] anthracene [120-12-7] and other aromatic and heterocycHc hydrocarbons. The routes to production of important coal-tar derivatives are shown in Eigure 1. Much of the production of these chemicals, especially tar bases such as the pyridines and picolines, is based on synthesis from petroleum feedstocks. Nevertheless, a number of important materials continue to be derived from coal tar. 

SolubiHty of the three commercial polysulfones foUows the order PSF > PES > PPSF. At room temperature, all three of these polysulfones as weU as the vast majority of other aromatic sulfone-based polymers can be readily dissolved in a few highly polar solvents to form stable solutions. These solvents include NMP, DMAc, pyridine, and aniline. 1,1,2-Trichloroethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane are also suitable solvents but are less desirable because of their potentially harmful health effects. PSF is also readily soluble in a host of less polar solvents by virtue of its lower solubiHty parameter. 

To minimize the formation of fuhninating silver, these complexes should not be prepared from strongly basic suspensions of silver oxide. Highly explosive fuhninating silver, beheved to consist of either silver nitride or silver imide, may detonate spontaneously when silver oxide is heated with ammonia or when alkaline solutions of a silver—amine complex are stored. Addition of appropriate amounts of HCl to a solution of fuhninating silver renders it harmless. Stable silver complexes are also formed from many ahphatic and aromatic amines, eg, ethylamine, aniline, and pyridine. 

Dyes, Dye Intermediates, and Naphthalene. Several thousand different synthetic dyes are known, having a total worldwide consumption of 298 million kg/yr (see Dyes AND dye intermediates). Many dyes contain some form of sulfonate as —SO H, —SO Na, or —SO2NH2. Acid dyes, solvent dyes, basic dyes, disperse dyes, fiber-reactive dyes, and vat dyes can have one or more sulfonic acid groups incorporated into their molecular stmcture. The raw materials used for the manufacture of dyes are mainly aromatic hydrocarbons (67—74) and include ben2ene, toluene, naphthalene, anthracene, pyrene, phenol (qv), pyridine, and carba2ole. Anthraquinone sulfonic acid is an important dye intermediate and is prepared by sulfonation of anthraquinone using sulfur trioxide and sulfuric acid. 

Because of the cost of pyridine the phosgenation process may be carried out with a mixture of pyridine and a non-hydrohalide-accepting solvent for the polymer and the growing complexes. Suitable solvents include methylene dichloride, tetrachlorethane and chloroform. Although unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbons may dissolve the solvent they are not effective solvents for the acid chloride-pyridine complexes. 

Heavily fluonnated aminobenzenes, pyridines, and pyrimidines are diazotized in strong-acid media Solid sodium nitrite added directly to the fluonnated amine dissolved in 80% hydrofluonc acid, anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, or (1 1 wt/wt) 98% sulfuric acid in (86 14 wt/wt) acetic and propionic acids affords the electrophilic fluoroarenediazonium ion Addition of an electron rich aromatic to the resultant diazonium solution gives the fluoroareneazo compound [10 II] (equa tions 9 and 10)... 

Pyridine and imidazole were two of the heterocyclic aromatic compounds described in Section 11.22. 

Draw and compare Lewis structures for benzene and pyridine. How many 7C electrons does each molecule have Where are the most accessible electrons in each Display the electrostatic potential map for pyridine and compare it to the corresponding map for benzene. Would you expect electrophilic attack on pyridine to occur analogously to that in benzene If so, should pyridine be more or less susceptible to aromatic substitution than benzene If not, where would you expect electrophilic attack to occur Explain. 

In 1904, Zincke reported that treatment of Al-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)pyridinium chloride (1) with aniline provided a deep red salt that subsequently transformed into A-phenyl pyridinium chloride 5 (Scheme 8.4.2). Because the starting salt 1 was readily available from the nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction of pyridine with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, the Zincke reaction provided access to a pyridinium salt (5) that would otherwise require the unlikely substitution reaction between pyridine and... 

Pyridine and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in methanol yield - a mixture of (33) and (34). It is tempting to assume that a zwitterion (30) is first formed and that this then adds a proton followed by a methoxide ion (Michael addition) under the influence of both the positive charge on the ring and the assisting ester group. The resulting structure (31) could then add another molecule of the ester and cyclize, as indicated, to (32). Subsequent aromatization accompanied by loss of one, or the other, substituent at position 3 would lead to the two products, (33) and (34), actually isolated. 

The 9ai7-quinolizine structure (82) for the labile adduct from 3,5-dimethylpyridine was clearly established by the nuclear magnetic resonance studies of Richards and Higham, and subsequent work showed the labile adduct from 3-methylpyridine was analogous. As the labile adducts from all the pyridines and benzopyridines so far examined have very similar infrared absorption spectra in the 5-7 yn. (carbonyl and aromatic) region and within quite close limits very similar ultraviolet absorption spectra, it can be concluded that all are derivatives of 9aH-quinolizine,... 

The preparations of over two hundred tetrahydro- and octahydro-pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidines from piperidines or from purely aliphatic starting materials are described in the patent literature. Fully aromatic examples of the system have been prepared from pyridines and pyrimidines. 

CaveU and Chapman made the interesting observation that a difference exists between the orbital involved in the quatemization of aromatic nitrogen heterocycles and aromatic amines, which appears not to have been considered by later workers. The lone pair which exists in an sp orbital of the aniline nitrogen must conjugate, as shown by so many properties, with the aromatic ring and on protonation or quatemization sp hybridization occurs with a presumed loss of mesomerism, whereas in pyridine the nitrogen atom remains sp hybridized in the base whether it is protonated or quaternized. Similarly, in a saturated compound, the nitrogen atom is sp hybridized in the base and salt forms. 

The order NO2 > Cl, which is known for the reactions of nitro-activated aromatic compounds, is also found for pyridine and quinoline derivatives. In the reaction of 2-chloro-4-nitroquinoline with methoxide ion, only the 4-methoxide derivative is formed, as shown by gas-chromatography, whereas 2,4-dichloroquinoline yields a mixture of the isomeric chloro-methoxy derivatives in comparable amounts. ... 

For unactivated aromatics, the activation energy (ca. 30 kcaF ) is less than the calculated localization energies (ca. 40 kcal for complete separation of charges in pyridine ), and, therefore, complete localization prior to reaching the transition state appears to be unnecessary... 

Compound 40 has not yet been synthesized. However, there is a large body of synthetic data for nucleophilic substitution reactions with derivatives of 41 [synthesized from aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes, pyridine, and trimethylsilyl triflate (92S577)]. All of these experimental results reveal that the exclusive preference of pathway b is the most important feature of 41 (and also presumably of 40). 

Goldschmidt and Beer have examined the products formed during the thermal decomposition of diacyl peroxides of the type [COgMe —(CHziw—CHz—COO] 2, where n = 1 and 3, in the presence of a series of organic compounds including pyridine and acridine. The products and yields of the reaction with some aromatic and heterocyclic compounds are shown in Table VI. As expected, acridine and... 

It is notable that pyridine is activated relative to benzene and quinoline is activated relative to naphthalene, but that the reactivities of anthracene, acridine, and phenazine decrease in that order. A small activation of pyridine and quinoline is reasonable on the basis of quantum-mechanical predictions of atom localization encrgies, " whereas the unexpected decrease in reactivity from anthracene to phenazine can be best interpreted on the basis of a model for the transition state of methylation suggested by Szwarc and Binks." The coulombic repulsion between the ir-electrons of the aromatic nucleus and the p-electron of the radical should be smaller if the radical approaches the aromatic system along the nodal plane rather than perpendicular to it. This approach to a nitrogen center would be very unfavorable, however, since the lone pair of electrons of the nitrogen lies in the nodal plane and since the methyl radical is... 

The mechanisms of the electrophilic substitutions in the isoxazole nucleus have not yet been studied. They should not differ fundamentally from those usually accepted for the substitution of aromatic systems but the structural specificity of the isoxazole ring might give rise to some peculiarities, as recently specially discussed.One important point is that isoxazole shows a clearcut tendency to form coordination compounds. Just as pyridine and other azoles, isoxazoles coordinate with halogens and the salts of heavy metals, for example of cadmium,mercury,zinc. Such coordination... 

Several other review articles cover various aspects of tautomerism in six-membered heterocycles. Various aspects of prototropic tautomerism have been covered in a review article by Katritzky [91H(32)329] types of tautomerism, methods of study of aromatic tautomerism, and tautomeric equilibria in pyridines and other six-membered rings. Some generalizations have also been made. Another review article by Kurasawa, which appeared in two parts in 1995, covers, for the most part, the work of that author [95H(41)1805 95H(41)2057]. 

Certain aromatic, nitrogen compounds (e.g., pyridines and quinolines) are basic and can cause coking on acid catalysts during petroleum processing. 

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