2- pyridine, rearrangement

The method of choice for preparing tropone (45) is to treat the initial mixture of monoadducts (43a) and (43b) with methanolic 1 TV hydrochloric acid to complete ketal hydrolysis and then carry out the pyridine rearrangement to give 3-bromo-4-methoxy-A-homo-estra-2,4,5(10)-trien-17-one (44) as described above for monoadduct 17-ketone (43b). 

In a single case acyl migration on the heteroaromatic nucleus is described,30 cf. 116 -> 117. 3-Aroyloxy-substituted pyridine rearranges with approximately half the quantum yield of 116 2-substituted pyridines do not rearrange at all. 

This synthesis, by a purely chemical route, confirmed the structure of the thermally stable 2-acetoxy-isomer 3, since the 4-isomer (4), which can be produced from the 4-hydroxyquinol derivative by acetylation with acetanhydride and pyridine, rearranges at 100° in organic solvents to give 3 (see p. 155). On the contrary, the thermodynamic structures of methyl- or ethyl-ethers or the hydroxy quinol derivatives (the last two are only known as the 4-substituted quinol derivatives) are the 4-substituted quinols. Table 15 gives some physical data of the two isomeric 2,4,6-triphenyl-quinol derivatives. 

Alkyl nitrones -> i -alkylamides. The methyl nitrones (I) derived from A -3-ketosteroids on treatment with p-toluenesulfonyl chloride in pyridine rearrange to... 

There has now been a number of reports of the rearrangement of the norbornadiene a adduct to the nortricyclyl system first reported by Coulsen (43). Thus Maitlis et al. (239) found that their phenylpalladation adduct in the presence of pyridine rearranged to this adduct [Eq. (195)]. 

Key a, enzymic synthesis b, diazomethane synthesis c, bacterial oxidation d, pyridine rearrangement. 

Further Rearrangements.— Acetic anhydride-pyridine rearranges both cis-and trans-4-acetamido-5-phenylisothiazolidin-3-one 1,1-dioxide [(61) and (64)] to 4-benzylidene-2-methyl-2-oxazolin-5-one (67). The isomers are convertible stereospecifically into the corresponding cis- and trans- parent... 

Grignard reagent comes from the substitution products it gives with various reactive substrates. When the low-temperature adduct is heated in an autoclave at 90 to 170 C for 3 to 6 hr, it does not rearrange to 2-ethylthiazole (12) as is the case in the pyridine series (436). 

Similarly, thiazole reacts at —60°C with phenyllithium affording thiazol-2-yllithium (156) (13, 437). As in the case of the Grignard derivative, thiazolyllithium does not rearrange under heating as does the adduct of pyridine and butyllithium (438). 

A photochemical partial synthesis of aldosterone (19) made the hormone available on an industrial scale for the first time (114). Corticosterone acetate (51 acetate) is treated with nitrosyl chloride in pyridine at 20°C to yield the 11-nitrite (115). Irradiation of (115) leads to rearrangement with formation of the C g-oxime (116). Removal of the oxime residue with nitrous acid furnishes aldosterone (19) in excellent yield. 

Acylation. Reaction conditions employed to acylate an aminophenol (using acetic anhydride in alkaU or pyridine, acetyl chloride and pyridine in toluene, or ketene in ethanol) usually lead to involvement of the amino function. If an excess of reagent is used, however, especially with 2-aminophenol, 0,A/-diacylated products are formed. Aminophenol carboxylates (0-acylated aminophenols) normally are prepared by the reduction of the corresponding nitrophenyl carboxylates, which is of particular importance with the 4-aminophenol derivatives. A migration of the acyl group from the O to the N position is known to occur for some 2- and 4-aminophenol acylated products. Whereas ethyl 4-aminophenyl carbonate is relatively stable in dilute acid, the 2-derivative has been shown to rearrange slowly to give ethyl 2-hydroxyphenyl carbamate [35580-89-3] (26). 

Production is by the acetylation of 4-aminophenol. This can be achieved with acetic acid and acetic anhydride at 80°C (191), with acetic acid anhydride in pyridine at 100°C (192), with acetyl chloride and pyridine in toluene at 60°C (193), or by the action of ketene in alcohoHc suspension. 4-Hydroxyacetanihde also may be synthesized directiy from 4-nitrophenol The available reduction—acetylation systems include tin with acetic acid, hydrogenation over Pd—C in acetic anhydride, and hydrogenation over platinum in acetic acid (194,195). Other routes include rearrangement of 4-hydroxyacetophenone hydrazone with sodium nitrite in sulfuric acid and the electrolytic hydroxylation of acetanilide [103-84-4] (196). 

The N-oxide function has proved useful for the activation of the pyridine ring, directed toward both nucleophilic and electrophilic attack (see Amine oxides). However, pyridine N-oxides have not been used widely ia iadustrial practice, because reactions involving them almost iavariably produce at least some isomeric by-products, a dding to the cost of purification of the desired isomer. Frequently, attack takes place first at the O-substituent, with subsequent rearrangement iato the ring. For example, 3-picoline N-oxide [1003-73-2] (40) reacts with acetic anhydride to give a mixture of pyridone products ia equal amounts, 5-methyl-2-pyridone [1003-68-5] and 3-methyl-2-pyridone [1003-56-1] (11). 

Synthesis From Other Ring Systems. These syntheses are further classified based on the number of atoms in the starting ring. Ring expansion of dichlorocyclopropane carbaldimine (53), where R = H and R = ryl, on pyrolysis gives 2-arylpyridines. Thermal rearrangement to substituted pyridines occurs in the presence of tungsten(VI) oxide. In most instances the nonchlorinated product is the primary product obtained (63). 

Sulfation by sulfamic acid has been used ia the preparation of detergents from dodecyl, oleyl, and other higher alcohols. It is also used ia sulfating phenols and phenol—ethylene oxide condensation products. Secondary alcohols react ia the presence of an amide catalyst, eg, acetamide or urea (24). Pyridine has also been used. Tertiary alcohols do not react. Reactions with phenols yield phenyl ammonium sulfates. These reactions iaclude those of naphthols, cresol, anisole, anethole, pyrocatechol, and hydroquinone. Ammonium aryl sulfates are formed as iatermediates and sulfonates are formed by subsequent rearrangement (25,26). 

Esters derived from the primary alcohols are the most stable and those derived from the tertiary alcohols are the least stable. The decomposition temperature is lower in polar solvents, eg, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), with decomposition occurring at 20°C for esters derived from the tertiary alcohols (38). Esters of benzyl xanthic acid yield stilbenes on heating, and those from neopentyl alcohols thermally rearrange to the corresponding dithiol esters (39,40). The dialkyl xanthate esters catalytically rearrange to the dithiol esters with conventional Lewis acids or trifluoroacetic acid (41,42). The esters are also catalytically rearranged to the dithiolesters by pyridine Ai-oxide catalysts (43) ... 

A different type of rearrangement occurs when suitable side chains are a to a pyridine-like nitrogen atom. In the monocyclic series this can be generalized by Scheme 43. For a given side chain the rate of rearrangement is l,2,4-oxadiazoles>isoxazoles> 1,2,5-oxadiazoles. Typical side chains include hydrazone, oxime and amidine. Some examples are shown in Table 9 (79AHC(25)147). Similar rearrangements for benzazoles are discussed in Section 4.02.3.2.4. 

Isomerization of 3-cephems (27) to 2-cephems (28) takes place in the presence of organic bases (e.g. pyridine) and is most facile when the carboxyl is esterified. Normally an equilibrium mixture of 3 7 (3-cephem/2-cephem) is reached. Since the 2-cephem isomers are not active as antibacterial agents, the rearrangement proved to be an undesirable side reaction that complicated acylation of the C-7 amine under certain conditions. A method for converting such mixtures to the desired 3-cephem isomer involves oxidation with concomitant rearrangement to the 3-cephem sulfoxide followed by reduction. Additions... 

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