Pyrimidine-2-amines, ring atom

Heterocyclic amines are compounds that contain one or more nitrogen atoms as part of a ring. Saturated heterocyclic amines usually have the same chemistry as their open-chain analogs, but unsaturated heterocycles such as pyrrole, imidazole, pyridine, and pyrimidine are aromatic. All four are unusually stable, and all undergo aromatic substitution on reaction with electrophiles. Pyrrole is nonbasic because its nitrogen lone-pair electrons are part of the aromatic it system. Fused-ring heterocycles such as quinoline, isoquinoline, indole, and purine are also commonly found in biological molecules. 

Ring A of the 9-nitrohexahydropyrimido[l,6-tf]pyrimidine 222 was formed from [3+3] atom fragments when the 2-nitromethylenehexahydropyrimidine 221 was reacted with a primary amine and 2 equiv of formaldehyde (Equation 27) <1997WO97/05145>. 

Comparison of this reactivity order with that found in the amination of 2-X-4-phenyl pyrimidines (SCH3 Br = Cl > F > SO2CH3 I > (013)3 > CN see Table 11.5 in Section ll,C,l,d) shows that these reactivity orders differ considerably. The fluoro substituent, especially, which has in the pyrimidine series about the same reactivity order as the chloro or bromo atom, shows in the 1,2,4-triazine series a low ANRORC activity. Comparison of both series of reactivities is, however, a delicate matter, mainly because the yields obtained for the amino compounds in the 1,2,4-triazine series are much lower than those obtained in the pyrimidine series, because of the occurrence of many side reactions, such as ring contraction, dehalogenation, ring transformations, and degenerate ring transformations... 

The imino-amine (51.6) reacts at room temperature with aldehydes or ketones with the formation of purines. The products obtained from aldehydes are slowly oxidized (by loss of two hydrogen atoms from the pyrimidine ring) at room temperature, but the ketone-derived purines are stable and are accompanied by smaller amounts of an imidazo[l,S-c]imidazoIe. During cyclization, the nitrile group is converted into a carboxamide. Pentane-2,4-dione, 2-furfuraldehyde and but-2-enal give the fully aromatized purine as the main or only product isolated (in 38-49% yield). Stirring an imino-nitrile for several hours or heating it for a few minutes with an anhydride converts it into a fused pyrimidine. 

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