Pyridones, acidity halogenation

Dibromo-l-methyl-4-pyridone has been prepared from Mmethyl-4-pyridone by modifications of an earber procedure. 7V- /i-Butyl)-2,6-di-methyl-4-pyridone is also brominated in acetic acid to the 3,5-derivative. 3-Nitro-4-pyridone and 2,6-dbnethyl-3-nitro-4-pyridone are halogenated at the 5-position to give 5-bromo- and 5-chloro-2,6-dimethyl-3-nitro-4-pyridone, which have been converted to the corresponding 4-chloropyridines for use in 7-carboline synthesis. 

Fluoropyridine is readily hydroly2ed to 2-pyridone in 60% yield by reflux in 6 Ai hydrochloric acid (383). It is quite reactive with nucleophiles. For example, the halogen mobiUty ratio from the comparative methoxydehalogenation of 2-fluoropyridine and 2-chloropyridine was 85.5/1 at 99.5°C (384). This labihty of fluorine has been utili2ed to prepare fluorine-free 0-2-pyridyl oximes of 3-oxo steroids from 2-fluoropyridine for possible use as antifertihty agents (385). 

A thioamide of isonicotinic acid has also shown tuberculostatic activity in the clinic. The additional substitution on the pyridine ring precludes its preparation from simple starting materials. Reaction of ethyl methyl ketone with ethyl oxalate leads to the ester-diketone, 12 (shown as its enol). Condensation of this with cyanoacetamide gives the substituted pyridone, 13, which contains both the ethyl and carboxyl groups in the desired position. The nitrile group is then excised by means of decarboxylative hydrolysis. Treatment of the pyridone (14) with phosphorus oxychloride converts that compound (after exposure to ethanol to take the acid chloride to the ester) to the chloro-pyridine, 15. The halogen is then removed by catalytic reduction (16). The ester at the 4 position is converted to the desired functionality by successive conversion to the amide (17), dehydration to the nitrile (18), and finally addition of hydrogen sulfide. There is thus obtained ethionamide (19)... 

Taking into account the close relationship to pyridines one would expect 2-pyridones to express similar type of reactivities, but in fact they are quite different. 2-Pyridones are much less basic than pyridines (pKa 0.8 and 5.2, respectively) and have more in common with electron-rich aromatics. They undergo halogenations (a. Scheme 10) [67] and other electrophilic reactions like Vilsmeier formylation (b. Scheme 10) [68,69] and Mannich reactions quite easily [70,71], with the 3 and 5 positions being favored. N-unsubstituted 2-pyridones are acidic and can be deprotonated (pJCa 11) and alkylated at nitrogen as well as oxygen, depending on the electrophile and the reaction conditions [24-26], and they have also been shown to react in Mitsonobu reactions (c. Scheme 10) [27]. 

Of lesser relevance to this discussion are halogenation methods involving the modification of the carbon skeleton (synthesis and degradation). The Hunsdiecker reaction, as applied to certain heterocyclic acids, has had limited application for the synthesis of halogen derivatives. The preparation of 3-bromo-4,6-dimethyl-2-pyridone from the silver salt of the respective 3-carboxylic acid by treatment with bromine in carbon tetrachloride is a rare example of success.13 The interaction of carbenes with heterocycles also has been employed infrequently, but recent advances in carbene generation may reactivate this approach.14 The Ciamician-Dennstedt ring expansion of pyrrole to / -halopyridines is a case in point18 [Eq. (4)] ... 

Of the substituted pyridines, the halogenated derivatives have been the most intensively studied.144,145 Treatment of 3,5-dichloropyridine A-oxide at 74° with 0.1 A NaOD led to exchange in three positions of the molecule, whereas with 3-chloropyridine iV-oxide relative rates of exchange were position 2>6>4>5. In l-methyl-4-pyridone, 1,3,5-trimethyl-4-pyridone, and 3,5-dibromo-l-methyl-4-pyridone, deuteration in basic D20 at 100° gives 2- and 6-substitution.146 With the poly-azaindenes (45) -(47) already discussed in the acid exchange section,141 base-catalyzed deuteration occurs in the positions indicated 45 3 and 5 46 2, 3, 5, and 6 and 47 2, 5, 6, and 7. In other isolated heterocycles some selectivity is observed in base-catalyzed exchange, e.g., certain imidazoles,147 thiazole,148 isothiazole,148 benzothiazole,149 and benzoxazole.149... 

Reitmann, J. (1935) Aliphatic amine salts of halogenated pyridones containing an acid group. US Patent 1 993 039 (5 March 1935 to Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc., New York). 

Small hydrogen isotope effects have been found in a nucleophilic substitution of an aromatic heterocycle, the reaction of cyanuric chloride with aniline-N,N-d2 in benzene solution (Zollinger, 1961a). As the effects are small (5%), it is difficult to draw definite mechanistic conclusions. The reactions of cyanuric chloride and other halogenated triazine derivatives are subject to bifunctional catalysis (e.g. by carboxylic acids and by a -pyridone) and to catalysis by monofunctional bases like pyridine (Bitter and Zollinger, 1961). Reinheimer et al. (1962) measured the solvent isotope effect in the hydrolysis of 2-chloro-5-nitro-pyridine (A h,o/ d.o = 2 36). The result makes it probable, but... 

The pyridones can be readily halogenated, nitrated and sulfonated. Substitutions in acidic solutions usually proceed via attack on the free pyridone, but in very strong acid, where there is almost complete protonation, 4-pyridone undergoes a slower nitration, via the 0-protonated salt, but with the same regioselectivity. ... 

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