Pyridinic nitrogen atom

The pyrazole molecule resembles both pyridine (the N(2)—C(3) part) and pyrrole (the N(l)—C(5)—C(4) part) and its reactivity reflects also this duality of behaviour. The pyridinic N-2 atom is susceptible to electrophilic attack (Section 4.04.2.1.3) and the pyrrolic N-1 atom is unreactive, but the N-1 proton can be removed by nucleophiles. However, N-2 is less nucleophilic than the pyridine nitrogen atom and N(1)H more acidic than the corresponding pyrrolic NH group. Electrophilic attack on C-4 is generally preferred, contrary to pyrrole which reacts often on C-2 (a attack). When position 3 is unsubstituted, powerful nucleophiles can abstract the proton with a concomitant ring opening of the anion. 

Clearly, the proportion of substitution occurring adjacent to the pyridinic nitrogen atom is increased by protonation. Also noteworthy are the high proportion of ortho substitution product and the selective attack at C-3 in the iV-phenyl derivative. 

An alternative scheme which has parallels with several reactions described in Section II can also account for the production of Kashi-moto s compound and is outlined in the following. Initial attack of the pyridine nitrogen atom on the ester group with the expulsion of... 

Tile pyridine nitrogen atom remains the center for predominant protonation of both imidazo[4,5-h]- and imidazo[4,5-c]-pyridines 40 and 41, respectively [88JCS(P2)1839 90MRC573]. 

In concave pyridines [13], the position of the pyridine nitrogen atom is even more defined. A large number of bimacrocyclic concave pyridines [13] were synthesized, and their relative basicities were determined in ethanol these are given in Table 7 (Liining, 1987 Liining et al., 1990, 1991a, 1993). 

X-ray analysis of the complex [67] between 2,6-pyridino-17-crown-9 [9b] (n = 6) and a guanidinium ion showed that one hydrogen bond is formed between the lone pair of the pyridine nitrogen atom and a hydrogen atom of Gu". The other five hydrogen atoms are bound to ether oxygens in their vicinity. The association constants for the reaction of some macrocycles of type [9b] (n = 6-8) with Gu" were comparable (logX 1.18-1.44). 

This has been mentioned at various points in this paper and may involve either a direct acid-base reaction of nitrene and nucleophile or, in some instances, reaction of the nitrene precursor with the nucleophile (or 1,3-dipolarophile) followed by loss of nitrogen. For example, the reaction of benzenesulphonyl azide with pyridine to give 31 (Ar=Ph) 69> could either involve a free nitrene or a concerted process in which the lone pair on the pyridine nitrogen atom assists the elimination of molecular nitrogen. That some free nitrene can be involved in these reactions is clear from the isolation of some 3-benzenesulphonamido-2,6-lutidine... 

An example of this displacement between a pyridine nitrogen atom and an aryl halide is shown in Scheme 21. When 2-pyridyl acetates 138 were C-acylated with 2-halobenzoyl chlorides, the enolized products 139 resulting from the reaction suffered an intramolecular nucleophilic attack of the pyridine nitrogen atom onto the ipso-position to give benzo[c]quinolizinium salts 140 as intermediates. Loss of HC1 gas from 140 afforded benzo[c]quinolizine derivatives 141 <2002JOC2082>. 

Activation of a primary alcohol 174 by in situ mesylation and nucleophilic attack of a pyridine nitrogen atom was used in the last steps of a synthesis of cyclohexa[tf]quinolizidines 176. These compounds were obtained by direct NaBH4 reduction of intermediate pyridinium salts 175, and were proposed as tricyclic models containing the ABC-part of 8-azasteroids (Scheme 30) <1999T9269>. 

In the solid state, the pyridine nitrogen atom of compound 10 forms secondary interactions with the mercury center. Intramolecular coordination of the nitrogen atom is, however, not observed in derivative 11 in which N —> Si 7t-bonding possibly monopolizes the nitrogen lone pair. 

Love and coworkers have reported a series of dinuclear cobalt complexes derived from a rigid binucleating macrocycle H4L 18 as shown in Fig. 26 (150). The synthesis of the dicobalt complex [Co2(L18)] (36) was achieved by an anaerobic transamination reaction between H4L18 and [Co(thf) N(SiMe3)2 2] in THF. The unsaturated species 36 forms a bis(pyridine) adduct, 36 py2 (py — pyridine), which has a cleft-like structure reminiscent of pacman diporphyrin complexes (151,152). Both cobalt ions are square pyramidal, with Col and Co2 displaced out of the N4-basal planes by 0.17 and 0.18 A, respectively. The apical sites are occupied by pyridine nitrogen atoms that are exo and endo to the cleft. Interestingly the endo pyridine is canted and reflects the... 

Another preparation employed the condensation of hydroxylamine with a substituted thiourea 239. In this example (Equation 30), no oxidation was required, since the central nitrogen atom is already in a higher oxidation state via its hydroxylamine derivative 240. Nucleophilic attack of the pyridine nitrogen atom resulted in ring closure, affording 241 accompanied by decarboxylation <2003S1649>. 

Whitehead et al. carried out novel calculations on the tetrazole-azide equilibrium 1-7, (Scheme 2) and found that PM3 provided the best results <2001JMT199>. The computed heats of formation showed that the equilibrium is shifted to the ring-closed form in the case of electron-donating substituents in meta position to the pyridine nitrogen atom. 

Glycosyl esters with remote functionality constitute a relatively new class of O-carbonyl glycosyl donors, which fulfill the prospect of mild and chemoselective activation protocols (Scheme 3.22). For example, Kobayashi and coworkers have developed a 2-pyridine carboxylate glycosyl donor 134 (Y = 2-pyridyl), which is activated by the coordination of metal Lewis acid (El+) to the Lewis basic pyridine nitrogen atom and ester carbonyl oxygen atom [324]. In the event, 2-pyridyl (carbonyl) donor 134 and the monosaccharide acceptor were treated with copper(II) triflate (2.2 equiv) in diethyl ether at —50 °C, providing the disaccharide 136 in 70% (a P,... 

Scheme 4. The compounds and intermediates on the rear plane of the bicubic system (farthest from the reader) are protonated on the pyridine nitrogen atom those on the front plane (nearest the reader) are not. Laviron s work has shown that the reduction of 14 and its corresponding N-oxide34, and indeed probably most aryl nitro compounds, proceeds by an ECEC sequence leading to the neutral N,N-dihydroxy [ArN(OH)2] intermediate at all proton concentrations from Ho = —6 to pH 9.6. This substance then loses water to form the nitroso compound, which then undergoes a second sequence leading to the arylhydroxylamine.

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... 

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