Pyridine, 2,6-disubstituted-1,2,5,6-tetrahydro

Extension of this work by reacting 5-nitropyrimidine with 0,0-ketene acetals and with other cyclic and non-cyclic enamines showed that also with these electron-rich dienophiles the addition is regioselective and gives rise to the formation of 2-mono- or 2,3-disubstituted 5-nitropyridines (Scheme 30). Thus, reaction of 5-nitropyrimidine with the cyclic N,S-ketene acetals 4,5-dihydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthiopyrrole and 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthioazepine gives in low yields 2,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-nitropyr-olo[2,3-h]pyridine and the 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-9-methyl-3-nitropyrido [2,3-Z)]azepine, respectively (89T2693) (Scheme 30). 

Hydrolytic reactions can also be applied in the synthesis of aldehydes or ketones via the corresponding 1,3-oxazine derivatives. The anion formed from 3-methyl-2-(4-pyridyl)tetrahydro-l,3-oxazine 155 on treatment with BuLi proved to react with various electrophiles (alkyl halides, carboxylic esters, acid chlorides, or aldehydes) exclusively at position 2 of the 1,3-oxazine ring and not at the pyridine nitrogen atom. The readily formed 2,2-disubstituted-l,3-oxazine... 

The pyridinium salts have been shown to have electrophilic positions at the 2-, 4-, and 6-carbon atoms. Of these, the 2- and 6-positions should be the more positive because of the proximity to the quaternary nitrogen. From the ultraviolet absorption spectra of the reaction mixtures during the reduction and of the isolated products, it can be demonstrated that the predominant attack of the hydride ion from sodium borohydride occurs at these two positions.5,6 The 1,6-dihydro-pyridine (such as 5) formed from the reduction of a 1,3-disubstituted pyridinium ion appears to be stable toward further reduction, for a number of such compounds have been isolated from sodium borohydride reductions containing sufficient borohydride to complete the reduction to the tetrahydro-state.7"10 Since 1,4-dihydropyridines having a 3-substituent which is electron-withdrawing have also been... 

Conventional methods have been used to prepare ribonucleoside analogues from 2-(l//)pyrazinone, 3,5-disubstituted pyridines (including a-anomers), 6-methyl-l,3-oxazine-2,4-dione and 6-methyluracil, 2-alkyl-4,5-dicarboxamido-imidazoles, 7-membered ring analogues (4) and (5) of uracil and tetrahydro-uracil [one diastereomer of (4) being the most potent inhibitor of cytidine deaminase yet discovered], 2-alkylthioadenine, 8-aza-3-deaza-guanine/ ... 

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