Pyridyl functional groups

Porous polymers containing various metal chelates bound to nitrogen functionalities have been used to separate oxygen from argon, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide [25]. The porous polymer is synthesized with pyridyl functional groups, which serve as an axial base for the metal chelate in coordinate bond formation between the metal chelate and the polymer. It also serves to activate the metal complex for oxygen coordination. 

Reaction of a monopyridyl functionalised imidazoUum salt with AgBF in the presence of a base (NaOH), a variant of the Ag O method since Ag O is usually synthesised from AgNOj and NaOH, yields a silver(I) bis-carbene complex with two pendant pyridyl functional groups [15] (see Figure 3.3). 

The first general method, RIMP, is by far the most widely employed. As shown in Table 2 CFPs employed as catalytic supports usually possess functional groups suited for ion exchange (-SO3H or -S03Na, -COOH or -COONa, -NR3X) or metal coordination (amino, cyano, pyridyl,... 

In solution, [Co(terpy)2]2+ is also in a high-spin/low-spin equilibrium. Ultrasonic absorption measurements determined the spin equilibrium relaxation time in both water and MeOH solution to be less than 2 ns.249 Electron-donating functional groups such as methoxyl appended to the terpy ring result in a shift towards the high-spin form of the complex,250 as does replacement of one pyridyl ring with a pyrazole.251... 

Heteroaryl groups are present in the 4-pyridyl-ethynyl compounds81,99,100 and their extended variants with C=C-C6H4-C=C-pyr-4 ligands.81,99 These compounds can be quaternized with Mel or coordinated to a metal complex at their terminal pyridyl functions to give species addressed as molecular rods or molecular wires.81,99 Similar reactions were carried out with 3-phenanthrolinyl-ethynyl complexes,62 and special examples are also known with R based on calixarenes.51... 

PDPH also may be used as a thiolation reagent to add sulfhydryl functional groups to carbohydrate molecules. The reagent can be used in this sense similar to the protocol described for AMBH (Chapter 1, Section 4.1). After modification of an oxidized polysaccharide with the hydrazide end of PDPH, the pyridyl group is removed by treatment with DTT, leaving the exposed sulfhydryl (Figure 5.15). 

Methyl esters are always the preferred substrates, conversions being lower with, for example, ethyl esters. Functional groups such as nitro, methoxy, alkenyl and pyridyl are compatible with the reaction conditions. Diesters can only be effective if bis-transesterification is desired, when an excess of the alcohol (e.g., 3-5 equiv) is necessary. Methyl acrylate tends to polymerize under the reaction conditions, but the use of an excess of the ester (3-5 equiv) and lower temperatures (-10°C) allows efficient isolation of the required ester. 

The 2-pyridyl and related 2-imidazolyl disulfides have found special use in the closure of large lactone rings.118 This type of structure is encountered in a number of antibiotics which, because of the presence of numerous other sensitive functional groups, require mild conditions for cyclization. It has been suggested that the pyridyl and imidazoyl thioesters function by a mechanism in which the heterocyclic nitrogen acts as... 

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