Pyridine carboxylic acids, electrophilic substitution

Bifunctional catalysis in nucleophilic aromatic substitution was first observed by Bitter and Zollinger34, who studied the reaction of cyanuric chloride with aniline in benzene. This reaction was not accelerated by phenols or y-pyridone but was catalyzed by triethylamine and pyridine and by bifunctional catalysts such as a-pyridone and carboxylic acids. The carboxylic acids did not function as purely electrophilic reagents, since there was no relationship between catalytic efficiency and acid strength, acetic acid being more effective than chloracetic acid, which in turn was a more efficient catalyst than trichloroacetic acid. For catalysis by the carboxylic acids Bitter and Zollinger proposed the transition state depicted by H. 

Ring metallation generally succeeds with /V-oxides. a-Lithio derivatives (348) can be generated in non-protic conditions by treating pyridine 1-oxides with n-butyllithium. These may be intercepted by various electrophiles such as cyclohexanone (Scheme 35). Reaction of substituted lithio /V-oxides with carbon dioxide gives carboxylic acids with elementary 02 and S8 (347, X = 0, S) are produced. 

The expedient and regioselective metalation of unprotected biphenyl-2-, -3-, and -4-carboxylic acids has been reported.59 Unprotected biphenyl-2-carboxylic acid has been cleanly metalated with. sex-butyllithium at the position adjacent to the carboxylate and can then be subjected to site-selective electrophilic substitution (Scheme 8). The remote C(2 )-position has been attacked by the superbasic mixture of n-BuLi and t-BuOK (LICKOR) in THF or benzene. The resulting dianion cyclizes to give the fluorenone skeleton. The mechanism of the metalation of homologous compounds, 2-(pyridin-3-yl)benzoic acid derivatives, with strong bases has also been discussed.60... 

Alternative reaction pathways exploring different synthetic possibilities have been studied. For instance, electron-rich dihydroazines also react with isocyanides in the presence of an electrophile, generating reactive iminium species that can then be trapped by the isocyanide. In this case, coordination of the electrophile with the isocyanide must be kinetically bypassed or reversible, to enable productive processes. Examples of this chemistry include the hydro-, halo- and seleno-carba-moylation of the DHPs 270, as well as analogous reactions of cyclic enol ethers (Scheme 42a) [223, 224]. p-Toluenesulfonic acid (as proton source), bromine and phenylselenyl chloride have reacted as electrophilic inputs, with DHPs and isocyanides to prepare the corresponding a-carbamoyl-(3-substituted tetrahydro-pyridines 272-274 (Scheme 42b). Wanner has recently, implemented a related and useful process that exploits M-silyl DHPs (275) to promote interesting MCRs. These substrates are reacted with a carboxylic acid and an isocyanide in an Ugi-Reissert-type reaction, that forms the polysubstituted tetrahydropyridines 276 with good diasteroselectivity (Scheme 42c) [225]. The mechanism involves initial protiodesilylation to form the dihydropyridinum salt S, which is then attacked by the isocyanide, en route to the final adducts. 

Significantly improved yields of pyridine-3-carboxylic acids are obtained by oxidising 2,5- and 5,6-dihalo-3-methylpyridines with tetrabutylammonium permanganate rather than with potassium permanganate.Pyridyl oxazolines derived from pyridine-3- and - -carboxylic acids on treatment with a lithiating reagent (methyllithium or lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide) followed by an electrophile, provide - and 3- substituted pyridines in good yield. 7 Photolysis of pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid... 

As carboxylic acid additives increased the efficiency of palladium catalysts in direct arylations through a cooperative deprotonation/metallation mechanism (see Chapter 11) [45], their application to ruthenium catalysis was tested. Thus, it was found that a ruthenium complex modified with carboxylic acid MesC02H (96) displayed a broad scope and allowed for the efficient directed arylation of triazoles, pyridines, pyrazoles or oxazolines [44, 46). With respect to the electrophile, aryl bromides, chlorides and tosylates, including ortho-substituted derivatives, were found to be viable substrates. It should be noted here that these direct arylations could be performed at a lower reaction temperatures of 80 °C (Scheme 9.34). 

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