Pyrroles 3 -hydroxy- 1-methyl-, tautomerism

N-alkylation, 4, 236 Pyrrole, 2-formyl-3,4-diiodo-synthesis, 4, 216 Pyrrole, 2-formyl-1-methyl-conformation, 4, 193 Pyrrole, 2-formyl-5-nitro-conformation, 4, 193 Pyrrole, furyl-rotamers, 4, 546 Pyrrole, 2-(2-furyl)-conformation, 4, 32 Pyrrole, 2-halo-reactions, 4, 78 Pyrrole, 3-halo-reactions, 4, 78 Pyrrole, 2-halomethyl-nucleophilic substitution, 4, 274 reactions, 4, 275 Pyrrole, hydroxy-synthesis, 4, 97 Pyrrole, 1-hydroxy-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 303 deoxygenation, 4, 304 synthesis, 4, 126, 363 tautomerism, 4, 35, 197 Pyrrole, 2-hydroxy-reactions, 4, 76 tautomerism, 4, 36, 198... 

In many cases, substituents linked to a pyrrole, furan or thiophene ring show similar reactivity to those linked to a benzenoid nucleus. This generalization is not true for amino or hydroxyl groups. Hydroxy compounds exist largely, or entirely, in an alternative nonaromatic tautomeric form. Derivatives of this type show little resemblance in their reactions to anilines or phenols. Thienyl- and especially pyrryl- and furyl-methyl halides show enhanced reactivity compared with benzyl halides because the halogen is made more labile by electron release of the type shown below. Hydroxymethyl and aminomethyl groups on heteroaromatic nuclei are activated to nucleophilic attack by a similar effect. 

The importance of ring size holds also for tautomerism of -pyrrol-5-ones and. d -dihydro-6-pyridones. While the former compounds behave as cyclic 1-methyl-2-alkyl-2-hydroxy-5-pyrrolidones 179) (76) [or, on distillation, as the dehydrated l-methyl-2-alkyl-J -pyrrolones (77)], the latter compounds exist as acyclic N-methylamides of 8-oxo-acids (78) [as shown by infrared spectroscopy (/80)j. The dehydration of 78 during distillation to form l-methyl-2-alkyl-. -dihydro-6-pyridones (79) is achieved only with difficulty. 

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