Pyrimidine properties

Ring- or side-chain fluoriaated nitrogen heterocycHcs have been iacorporated iato crop-protection chemicals, dmgs, and reactive dyestuffs. Key iatermediates iaclude fluoriaated pyridines, quiaolines, pyrimidines, and tria2iaes. Physical properties of some fluoriaated nitrogen heterocycHcs are Hsted ia Table 13. 

A great many pyrimidines have properties potentially useful in stock or crop raising. The following examples include some of the pyrimidines actually used in such areas. 

Methanol, l-isoquinolyl(phenyl)-confonnation, 2, 110 Methanol, pyrimidinyl-synthesis, 3, 113 Methanol, tetrahydropyran-2-yl-microwave spectra, 3, 625 Methantheline as neurotransmitter, 1, 175 therapeutic properties, 3, 882 Methaphenilene biological activity, 4, 911 Methapyrilene biological activity, 4, 911 toxicity, 4, 912 Methaqualone, 3, 150 as anticonvulsant, 1, 166 pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine analogues metabolism, 3, 205 as sedative, 1, 166 Metharbitone as anticonvulsant, 1, 166 Methazolamide... 

Pyrido[3,4-d]pyrimidine-2,4-dione synthesis, 3, 215 Pyridopyrimidines, 3, 201 iV-alkylations, 3, 206 biological activity, 3, 260-261 1-electron reductions, 3, 207 IR spectra, 3, 204 mass spectra, 3, 204 MO calculations, 3, 204 NMR, 3, 202, 203 nucleophilic substitution, 3, 213 8-nucleosides synthesis, 3, 206 physical properties, 3, 201-205 protonation, 3, 206 radical reactions, 3, 215 reactions with water, 3, 207 reduced... 

Another property of pyrimidines and purines is their strong absorbance of ultraviolet (UV) light, which is also a consequence of the aromaticity of their heterocyclic ring structures. Figure 11.8 shows characteristic absorption spectra of several of the common bases of nucleic acids—adenine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine—in their nucleotide forms AMP, UMP, CMP, and GMP (see Section 11.4). This property is particularly useful in quantitative and qualitative analysis of nucleotides and nucleic acids. 

For this reason dual terminology is in use for the aza analogs. The first, derived from the principal pyrimidine and purine derivatives by means of the prefix aza- is used almost exclusively in biochemical papers in organic chemistry is it used together with the systematic names) wherever it is desired to compare the properties of the natural bases and of their aza analogs. The systematic terminology is naturally used in the older literature where no biochemical aspects of the compounds were considered, and in some newer work of strictly chemical nature. Since the numbering of the substituents is in some cases different for the different systems, we shall discuss this in more detail later. ... 

The first chemical synthesis of these substances, using a procedure which yields 1-ribofuranosyl derivatives by pyrimidine bases, was described by Hall. By using the mercuric salt of 6-azathymine and tribenzoate of D-ribofuranosyl chloride, he obtained a mixture of two monoribosyl derivatives and a diribosyl derivative. He determined the structure of the 3-substituted derivative by the similarity of spectra and other properties to those of 3-methyl-6-razauracil. The structure of the 1-ribosyl derivative was then determined from the similarity of the spectra with 6-azathymine deoxyriboside obtained enzymatically. 

The halogen atom in benz-chloro substituted quinazolines is very stable (as in chlorobenzene), whereas the halogen atoms in positions 2 and 4 show the enhanced reactivity observed with halogen atoms on carbon atoms placed a and y to heterocyclic ring nitrogens. The chlorine atom in position 4 is more reactive than in position 2, and this property has been used to introduce two different substituents in the pyrimidine ring. ... 

Early reports of analgesic and antiarthritic activity in octahydropjTido[4,3-d]pyrimidines do not appear to have been substantiated, but a number of recent patents refer to the antipyretic, diuretic, bacteriostatic, sedative, and coronary-dilating activities of a series of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydropyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidines. Pharmacological properties claimed for, 5,6-dihydropyrido[2,3-[Pg.198]

Assignment of the l,2,4-triazolo[l,5-c]pyrimidine structures to the products obtained from the previously described cyclizations and not the alternative [4,3-c] structures has been rationalized and corroborated on the basis of (a) preference of cyclization at the more nucleophilic triazole ring N2 rather than at its less nucleophilic N4 (65JOC3601 88JMC1014), (b) inability of the obtained products to undergo acid- or base-catalyzed Dimroth rearrangement, a property characteristic of the thermodynamically less stable [4,3-c] isomers (91JMC281), (c) comparison with unequivocally prepared... 

Chemistry of benzologs of pyrido[l,2-<2]pyrimidines 99AHC(73)177. Synthesis, chemistry, and biological properties of thienopyrimidines ... 

Neurotropic and antistress properties of 2,4-dimethylpyrido[l, 2-u]pyr-imidinium perchlorate were compared with those of piracetam (95MI7). AH-Pyrido[l,2-u]pyrimidin-4-one binds selectively to rat A3 receptors with a A", value of 48/xM. No affinities were observed to rat Ai and A2 receptors (96MI17). 4-Oxo-4//-pyrido[l,2-u]pyrimidine-3-carboxylic acid and -3-carbonitrile did not exhibit significant antibacterial activities (97MI6). 

Acidimetric, spectrophotometric and HPLC assays were developed for determination of 2,3,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-l//-pyrido[l,2-c]pyrimidine-l,3-diones 135 (98M133). Its solubility properties were also characterized. Resolution of the enantiomers of 4-phenyl-2- 4-[4-(2-pyrimidinyl)piperazi-nyl]butyl perhydropyrido[l,2-c]pyrimidine-l,3-dione was achieved on hep-takis(2-N, V-dimethylcarbamoyl)- 6-cyclodextrines (01 JC(A)249). 

BENZENESULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVES As has been discussed previously, substituted -alkylbenzene-sulfonylureas often possess the property of releasing bound insulin, thus sparing the requirement for insulin injections in adult-onset diabetes. A pyrimidine moiety, interestingly, can serve as a surrogate for the urea function. 

The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds has been published since 1950 under the initial editorship of Arnold Weissberger, and later, until his death in 1984, under the joint editorship of Arnold Weissberger and Edward C. Taylor. In 1997, Peter Wipf joined Prof. Taylor as editor. This series attempts to make the extraordinarily complex and diverse held of heterocyclic chemistry as organized and readily accessible as possible. Each volume has traditionally dealt with syntheses, reactions, properties, structure, physical chemistry, and utility of compounds belonging to a specihc ring system or class (e.g., pyridines, thiophenes, pyrimidines, three-membered ring systems). This series has become the basic reference collection for information on heterocyclic compounds. 

The synthesis of pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines has attracted considerable interest in heterocyclic chemistry. This ring system constitutes a deaza-analogue of the pyrazino[2,3-d]pyrimidine heterocychc core of fohc acid, analogues which can exhibit a wide range of biological properties as folate antagonists. Thus, the synthesis of this motif by MCR imder microwave-assisted conditions has the potential to rapidly introduce diversity into a biologically relevant scaffold. 

Campbell LL (1957c) Rednctive degradation of pyrimidines IV. Purification and properties of dihydronracil hydrase. / Bio/ Chem 233 1236-1240. 

Whatever the reason may be behind the strict necessity to deprotonate the flavin donor, the reduced and deprotonated flavin was established in these model studies to be an efficient electron donor, able to reduce nucle-obases and oxetanes. In the model compounds 1 and 2 the pyrimidine dimer translates the electron transfer step into a rapidly detectable chemical cycloreversion reaction [47, 48], Incorporation of a flavin and of a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer into DNA double strands was consequently performed in order to analyse the reductive electron transfer properties of DNA. 

Molecular rotors with a dual emission band, such as DMABN or A/,A/-dimethyl-[4-(2-pyrimidin-4-yl-vinyl)-phenyl]-amine (DMA-2,4 38, Fig. 13) [64], allow to use the ratio between LE and TICT emission to eliminate instrument- and experiment-dependent factors analogous to (10). One example is the measurement of pH with the TICT probe p-A,A-dimethylaminobenzoic acid 39 [69]. The use of such an intensity ratio requires calibration with solvent gradients, and influences of solvent polarity may cause solvatochromic shifts and adversely influence the calibration. Probes with dual emission bands often have points in their emission spectra that are independent from the solvent properties, analogous to isosbestic points in absorption spectra. Emission at these wavelengths can be used as an internal calibration reference. 

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