Pyridines substituent effects

Our results confirm the conclusion of Ehrenson, Brownlee, and Taft that pyridinium ions are best correlated by Equation 103. In regard to this point we must consider a recent publication of Johnson, Roberts, and Taylor (49) which claims that the proper treatment of pyridine substituent effects requires the use of the equation... 

Fig. 5.P23. The substituent effect in the Menschutkin reaction of 1-arylethyl bromides with pyridine in acetonitrile at 35°C. Circles represent kj for the bimolecular process and squares (for the uni-molecular process.

Charton has recently examined substituent effects in the ortho position in benzene derivatives and in the a-position in pyridines, quinolines, and isoquinolines. He concludes that, in benzene derivatives, the effects in the ortho position are proportional to the effects in the para position op). However, he finds that effects of a-sub-stituents on reactions involving the sp lone pair of the nitrogen atoms in pyridine, quinoline, and isoquinoline are approximately proportional to CT -values, or possibly to inductive effects (Taft s a ). He also notes that the effects of substituents on proton-deuterium exchange in the ortho position of substituted benzenes are comparable to the effects of the same substituents in the a-position of the heterocycles. 

In the manner outlined, a few attempts have been made to apply the Hammett equation to the transmission of substituent effects in the pyridine series. In the alkaline hydrolysis of 5-substituted ethyl picolinates (5-R-2-COOEt) in 85% ethanol at 25, 35, and 45°, the reaction constants are about 60% as large as those in the corresponding benzene series the overall fit to the Hammett equation, however, is at best fair, since out of four points (R = Et, H, I, Ac) one (Ac) deviates widely. 

In spite of the potential complexity of the general problem, even when restricted to the reagent family of amines, the nucleophilicities of such series as meta- and pom-substituted pyridines and anilines appear to correlate very closely with the expected substituent effects and with the basicities. This has been verified in the following cases (i) The reaction of pyridines (R = H, m- andp-CHs) with 2-chloro-3-nitro-, 2-chloro-5-nitro-, and 4-chloro-3-nitro-pyridines. ... 

Tlie Ca substituent effects have been experimentally studied by synthesizing and investigating the A -(l,2,2,2-tetrachloroethyl)pyridinium chloride (43). Tlie synthesis of 43 follows the standard three-component reaction. Tliionyl chloride, trichloroacetaldehyde, and pyridine were reacted at 0°C in MeCN to give this salt in excellent yield (Scheme 31). 

Eq. (1) has potential application to other types of measurements of substituent effects besides those specifically considered in this paper e.g., nmr coupling constants and shifts for other nuclei, ir and uv spectral shifts and intensities. We caution (with emphasis) in these applications the needed use of data sets of high quality, both with respect to the precision of the measurement and substituents considered (i.e., a full complement of substituent o/ and Or properties must be encompassed for a meaningful correlation to be obtained). There is, of course, no requirement that all data sets will be uniquely fitted by eq. (1) using one of the four or scales of Table V. For example, the data for the ionization of the conjugate acids of pyridine-N-oxides (30), HjO, 25° is found to fit equally well the or(ba.) or Or scales (SD=. 14 /=. 072). The data (31) for the rates of alkaline ("OMe) cleavage of ArSnMea are not fitted to acceptable precision (fs >. 23) by any of the Or parameters. This data set is nevertheless indicated... 

An EPR study of the monomeric 02 adducts of the Schiff base complexes of Co(bzacen)(py) (71a) and the thiobenzoyl analog Co(Sbzacen)(py) (71b) characterized the five-coordinate mono (pyridine) precursors and the six-coordinate 02 adducts.327 Increased covalency in the Co—S bonds was seen in the EPR parameters, indicative of 7r-backbonding. Substituent effects on the aromatic rings had no effect on the EPR spectra, but these were reflected in the observed redox potentials. Furthermore, the S-donors stabilize the Co ion in lower oxidation states, which was consistent with destabilization of the 02 adducts. 

They are applicable to compounds in the common NMR solvents - but not in D6-benzene (or D5-pyridine). The substituent effects are additive, but don t place too much reliance on chemical shifts predicted using the table, in compounds where more than two groups are substituted next to each other, as steric interactions between them can cause large deviations from expected values. Note that Table 5.4, like all others, does not cater for solvent shifts, etc ... 

Scheme 13.14 Substituent effects in the microwave-enhanced nucleophilic fluorination of a number of pyridine derivatives.

Chen, I.J., Taneja, R., Yin, D., Seo, P.R., Young, D., MacKerell, A.D. and Polli, J.E. (2006) Chemical substituent effect on pyridine permeability and mechanistic insight from computational molecular descriptors. Molecular Pharmacology, 3, 745-755. 

In an important application of this method, Katritzky and coworkers (67JCS(B)758, 68JCS(B)556) have attempted to estimate the influence of substituent effects on the tautomeric equilibrium of pyridin-4-one. They utilized equation (8) in the form of equation (11), by considering the pjRTa values of the appropriate methylated model compounds in water. 

The study of the relationships between the acidity (N—H) and the basicity ( N ) of azoles has shown that both properties display essentially the same sensitivity to substituent effects (58JA148 69JOC3315). Analogous behavior has been reported for tetrazoles (81KGS559), and, more generally, for all azoles protonated on a pyridine nitrogen (80BSF30). 

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