Pyridine nitrogen heterocycles

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. 

Naphthalene and other fused ring compounds are so reactive that they react with the catalyst, and therefore tend to give poor yields in Friedel-Crafts alkylation. Heterocyclic rings are also tend to be poor substrates for the reaction. Although some furans and thiophenes have been alkylated, a true alkylation of a pyridine or a quinoline has never been described.However, alkylation of pyridine and other nitrogen heterocycles can be accomplished by a free radical (14-23) and by a nucleophilic method (13-15). 

Alkylation of protonated nitrogen heterocycles (e.g., pyridines, quinolines) can be accomplished by treatment with a carboxylic acid, silver nitrate, sulfuric acid, and ammonium peroxydisulfate. The R group can be primary, secondary, or tertiary. The attacking species is R% formed by " ... 

Protonated nitrogen heterocycles can be carbalkoxylated" by treatment with esters of a-keto acids and Fenton s reagent. Pyridine is carbalkoxylated at C-2 and C-4, for example. The attack is by "COOR radicals generated from the esters ... 

Nitrogen heterocycles have a strong affinity for platinum(II), and complexes of these ligands, particularly pyridine and related diimines such as bipy, are ubiquitous.189,190 The favorable electronic (strong cr-donor/weak 7r-acceptor) and steric properties of such ligands lead to the... 

Redmore, D., Phosphorus derivatives of nitrogen heterocycles. 2. Pyridine-phosphonic acid derivatives, /. Org. Chem., 35, 4114, 1970. 

Let us consider just one more nitrogen heterocycle here, and that is imidazole, a component of the amino acid histidine (see Box 11.6). The imidazolium cation has pATa 7.0, making imidazole less basic than a simple amine, but more basic than pyridine. Imidazole has two nitrogen atoms in its aromatic ring system. One of these nitrogens contributes its lone... 

Two independent papers have reported the synthesis of nitrogen-heterocycle complexes of the type [RhCl3(py-X)3] (py-X = 3-Etpy, 3-CNpy, 4-Etpy, or 4-CNpy) and rr(ans-[RhY2L4] (Y = Cl or Br L = several substituted pyridines, isoquinoline, pyrimidine, pyrazole, thiazole, and substituted imidazoles). All the compounds were prepared catalytically by boiling RhCl3.3H20 with ethanolic solutions of L. It is interesting that 2-substituted... 

Halopyridines and other re-deficient nitrogen heterocycles are excellent reactants for nucleophilic aromatic substitution.112 Substitution reactions also occur readily for other heterocyclic systems, such as 2-haloquinolines and 1-haloisoquinolines, in which a potential leaving group is adjacent to a pyridine-type nitrogen. 4-Halopyridines and related heterocyclic compounds can also undergo substitution by nucleophilic addition-elimination but are somewhat less reactive. 

Efficient epoxidation of a variety of linear and cyclic alkenes by RuClj/aq. Na(IO )/(bpy)/CH2CyO-5°C/15 h was observed [735] 5-methyl- or 3,4,7,8-tetram-ethyl-phenanthroline can replace (bpy) [736], The active species when (bpy) is present is probably franx-Ru(0)2(bpy) 103(011)3 [567, 568], Competition between epoxidation and cleavage of fran -stilbene with bidentate ligands (pyridine, oxazo-line, oxazolidine and thiophene), containing two different nitrogen heterocycles either linked or separated by a spacer together with RuCyaq. Na(IO )/CH3Cy2°C was reported [737],... 

Without additives, radical formation is the main reaction in the manganese-catalyzed oxidation of alkenes and epoxide yields are poor. The heterolytic peroxide-bond-cleavage and therefore epoxide formation can be favored by using nitrogen heterocycles as cocatalysts (imidazoles, pyridines , tertiary amine Af-oxides ) acting as bases or as axial ligands on the metal catalyst. With the Mn-salen complex Mn-[AI,AI -ethylenebis(5,5 -dinitrosalicylideneaminato)], and in the presence of imidazole as cocatalyst and TBHP as oxidant, various alkenes could be epoxidized with yields between 6% and 90% (in some cases ionol was employed as additive), whereby the yields based on the amount of TBHP consumed were low (10-15%). Sterically hindered additives like 2,6-di-f-butylpyridine did not promote the epoxidation. 

Stanovnik and co-workers (100,101) systematically investigated the cycloaddition reactions of diazoalkanes with unsaturated nitrogen heterocycles, such as azolo-[l,5-fl]pyridines, pyridazin-3(2/7)-ones, and [fo]-fused azolo- and azinopyridazines. The Stanovnik group have studied the further transformations of the products and reviews of this chemistry are available. In a typical example, the reaction of 6-chlorotetrazolo[l,5-/7]pyridazine (37) with 2-diazopropane yields the NH,NH-dihy-dro-pyrazolo[4,3-(i]tetrazolo[l,5-/7]pyridazine 38 (102) (Scheme 8.11). The latter substrate reacts with acetone to produce an azomethine imine 39 that thermally rearranges to give the fused dihydro-1,2-diazepine 40. The azomethine imine obtained with glucose can be trapped with methyl acrylate to furnish the C-nucleoside 41 (103). 

Since proline already contains a pyrrolidine ring it provides a potential source of nitrogen heterocyclics in the MaiUard reaction, and a number of proline-con-taining model systems have been examined. Tressl et al. [32] identified more than 120 proline-specific compounds in the reaction of proline or hydroxypro-line with various sugars. These include pyrrolines, pyrroles, pyridines, indolines, pyrrolizines and azepines, but relatively few of the compounds have been identified among food volatiles. 

The formation of activated iminium intermediates derived from nitrogen heterocycles has been reported by Comins . The activation of pyridine derivative such as 214 with phenyl chloroformate provides the pyridinium salt 215, which smoothly reacts with the zinc homoenolate 216 leading to the addition product 217 in 66% yield . The reaction... 

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