Pyrrole, 2-cyano-1-hydroxy

Although the hydroxy group is a relatively poor leaving group, its base-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution by the mechanism shown in Scheme 69 accounts not only for the hydrogenolysis of the 3-hydroxymethylindoles, but also for their SN reactions with ethoxide ions, cyanide ions and with piperidine. Nucleophilic substitution on 2-hydroxymethyl-pyrroles is generally precluded by the faster formation of the bis(2-pyrrolyl)methanes, but the synthesis of 2-cyano-2-(2,5-dimethyl-3-pyrroIyl) propanes from 2,5-dimethylpyrrole, propanone and potassium cyanide probably results from an SN reaction of the cyanide ion upon the initially formed 3-pyrrolylcarbinol (81USP4248784). The formation of (294)... 

Table 27. Selected examples of correlation between observed and calculated UV transitions (Del Bene and Jaffe). (Other studied compounds include benzene, pyridine, 1,2-diazine, 1,3-diazine, 1,4-diazine, cyclopentadienide ion, pyrazole, imidazole, 2-pyrrole-carboxaldehyde, furfural, benzonitrile, nitrosobenzene, phenol, phenoxide ion, pyridinium ion, 1-hydroxy-pyridinium ion, 2-cyano-pyridine, 3-cyano-pyridine, 4-cyano-pyridine, 2-amino-pyridine, 3-amino-pyridine, 4-amino-pyridine.)...

The photolytic Wolff ring contraction of diazopyridones 247 leads to pyrrole-2-carboxylic acids 250 via carbene 248 and ketene 249 intermediates <1976S754>. The thermolysis of 2-azidopyridine A-oxides 251 affords A-hydroxy-2-cyano-pyrroles 252 (Scheme 137) <1973JOC173> (see also Section 3.4.3.11). 

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