Pyridine derivatives reactivity

The high reactivity of the exocyclic 4-NH- group is again illustrated by the reaction of 2-imino-3-phenyl-4-amino-5-(ethoxycarbonyl)-4-thiazoline with EtOjCCH SCN, which yields 134 (296), and by the intramolecular preparation of the dihydrothiazolo[4,5-h]pyridine derivative 136 (297) (Scheme 89). 

There is another important factor in the low reactivity of pyridine derivatives toward electrophilic substitution. The —N=CH— unit is basic because the electron pair on nitrogen is not part of the aromatic n system. The nitrogen is protonated or complexed with a Lewis acid under many of the conditions typical of electrophilic substitution reactions. The formal positive charge present at nitrogen in such species further reduces the reactivity toward electrophiles. 

Kelly applied this chemistry to the synthesis of cyclosexipyridine 66. This is an example of an intramolecular variation to this method. Masked enal 65 was prepared and treated with the standard reagents. The acidic medium liberated the aldehyde from its acetal protection. This in situ formation of the reactive species, similar to the above example, then undergoes cyclization to the expected pyridine derivative 66. 

The reactivity of 2- and 4-halopyridines toward a variety of nucleophiles is far greater than that of the 3-halo isomers (274), which are nevertheless appreciably activated. The 4-position (cf. 271) is more reactive than the 2-position (cf. 272), except when the specific factors described in Sections II, B and III, A and also below, produce an increase in the reactivity at the 2-position. Pyridine derivatives are the least reactive of the monocyclic azines (cf. Scheme I, p. 266). 

CHEC(5) N. Dennis, Pyridines and Benzo Derivatives Reactivity of... 

The low yields of 6,6 -disubstituted-2,2 -bipyridincs recorded in Table I are probably the result of steric retardation of the adsorption of 2-substituted pyridines. This view is supported by the observation that 2-methylpyridine is a much weaker poison for catalytic hydrogenations than pyridine. On the other hand, the quinolines so far examined (Table II) are more reactive but with these compounds the steric effect of the fused benzene ring could be partly compensated by the additional stabilization of the adsorbed species, since the loss of resonance energy accompanying the localization of one 71-electron would be smaller in a quinoline than in a pyridine derivative. 

Rayama, A., Rinoshita-Nagaoka, J., Rawano, H., Rameda, S. and Mukuriya, M. (1998) Cycloauration of 2-substituted pyridine derivatives. Synthesis, structure and reactivity of srx-membered cycloaurated complexes of 2-anilino-, 2-phenoxy- and 2-(phenylsulfanyl)-pyridine. Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions, (24), 4095. 

Reactivity of azides towards acetylenedicarboxylates is very dependent on their electron density (energy HOMO). Thus, strongly electron-deficient 3,5-dicyano-2,4,6-triazidopyridine 1039 reacts slowly with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give triazole derivative 1038 in 34% yield with most of the starting material recovered unchanged. Under comparable conditions, less electron-deficient 3,5-dichloro-2,4,6-triazidopyridine 1040 reacts with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to provide 2,6-bis(l,2,3-triazol-lyl)pyridine derivative 1041 in 75% yield (Scheme 171) <2001CHE861>. 

Pyridines and their Benzo Derivatives (//) Reactivity at Ring Atoms... 

In a rearrangement reaction, 2-hydroxy-2-phenyl-2-(3-pyridinyl)acetic hydrazide, 102, reacts with methanesulfonyl chloride to generate a mixture of pyrrolo[2,3-. ]pyridine derivatives (Equation 42) <1998JHG145>. The proposed mechanism for the rearrangement involves intramolecular attack of compound 102 on a reactive pyridinium intermediate formed during the reaction. 

The model reactions of Sects. 4.1 and 4.2. have shown that the reactivity of a pyridine derivative may also be found for their concave analogues. The concave... 

In pyridine derivatives, a- and y-picolines readily lose a proton from the methyl group. It is easy to fmd parallel reactivity in the picolines and the nitrotoluenes N=CHN02. Further development of the reactivity patterns includes a methano-lytic study of several trichloromethylpyridines [29],... 

A well understood case is that of quinoline reaction at position 2 is kinetically favored as compared with reaction at position 4, but the adduct from the latter is thermodynamically more stable. This situation, where the site of attack leading to the more stable adduct is the y position, is analogous with those regarding the formation of Meisenheimer adducts from benzene and pyridine derivatives and RCT nucleophiles. Presumably, with quinoline kinetic control favors the position that is more strongly influenced by the inductive effect of the heteroatom. The fact that position 2 of quinoline is the most reactive toward nucleophilic reagents is probably related to the lower 71-electron density at that position.123 However, the predominance of the C-4 adduct at equilibrium can be better justified by the atom localization energies for nucleophilic attachment at the different positions of quinoline. Moreover, both 7t-electron densities and atom localization energies indicate position 1 of isoquinoline to be the most favored one for nucleophilic addition. 

The oxygenation of the related Co system BCo(DH)2(NO) where DH = dimethylglyoximate, B = pyridine derivatives, PPh3 and N-methylimidazole, has been studied by Trogler and Marzilli (214). The main difference from the study by Basolo is the observation of a mixture of products. An O-bonded nitrato compound is obtained as the major product in this reaction with the expected nitro species giving less than 50% of the product mixture. The authors were unable to explain the occurrence of the product mixture, or elucidate the mechanism of O-bonded NOa formation. It does seem clear, however, that electrophilic attack by 02 at NO- is the key step in the reaction. In the absence of added bases, the reactivity of the nitrosyl should be diminished with respect to electrophilic attack, and it is found that only nitro products are obtained (214). 

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