Quinazoline, covalent hydration

The present review describes recent advances in quinazoline chemistry, some of which are but modem applications of earlier methods, whereas others strike out on new, and sometimes surprising, pathways. The structure of the cation of the parent substance, quinazoline, has only recently been made clear, and it has become evident that covalent hydration is a phenomenon widely distributed throughout the quinazoline series. With this fact in mind, it seems better to set forth the newly found properties of quinazolines before proceeding to an account of advances in synthesis. 

The physical properties of the pyridopyrimidines closely resemble those of their nearest A-heteroeyclie neighbors the quinazolines and the pteridines. Thus, in common with the pteridines, the presence of groups capable of hydrogen-bonding markedly raises the melting point and lowers the solubility. - The acid dissociation constants (pif a values) and ultraviolet absorption spectra of all four parent pyridopyrimidines have been determined by Armarego in a comprehensive study of covalent hydration in these heterocyclic systems. The importance of these techniques in the study of covalent hydration, and... 

Covalent hydration has been demonstrated in the following families of compounds 1,6-naphthyridines, quinazolines, quinazoline. 3-oxides, four families of l,3,x-triazanapththalenes, both l,4,x-triazanaphthalenes, pteridines and some other tetraazanaphthalenes, and 8-azapurines these compounds are discussed in that order. In general, for any particular compound (e.g. 6-hydroxypteridine) the highest ratio of the hydrated to the anhydrous species follows the order cation > neutral species > anion. In some cases, however, anion formation is possible only when the species are hydrated, e.g. pteridine cf. 21 and N-methyl-hydroxypteridines (Section III, E, 1, d). Table V in ref. 10 should be consulted for the extent of hydration in the substances discussed here. 

The cation of 4,4 -biquinazolinyl and its 2,2 -dimethyl derivative readily add water across the 3,4- and 3, 4 -double bonds, but the cation of 2,2 -biquinazolinyl is not hydrated. Hydration in the 4,4 -isomers has been attributed to restricted rotation about the 4,4 -bond, a steric effect which is relieved by hydration. The ultraviolet spectrum of 2,2 -biquinazolinyl (neutral species and cation) shows that there is considerable conjugation between the quinazoline groups. Covalent hydration is absent from the latter compound because it would otherwise destroy the extended conjugation present. 

Reversible covalent hydration across C=N bonds occurs in a number of nitrogen-containing heterocycles, including pteridine and its 2- and 6-hydroxy derivatives, quinazoline (as the cation), and 1,4,6-triazanaphthalene (as the cation). Among bases giving this reaction, the neutral molecule exists predominantly as the anhydrous form, whereas the cation contains an increased proportion of the... 

However, much greater differences between the spectra of dihydro compounds and the corresponding covalently hydrated species are sometimes found. Thus, the neutral molecule of hydrated quinazoline,... 

Some of the scatter within the groups is undoubtedly due to differences in bond order and also to whether or not the nitrogens are located in the same ring. Nevertheless, some striking exceptions are apparent in which the pA values are much higher than expected. These include quinazoline, 1,3,5-, 1,3,7-, 1,3,8-, and 1,4,6-triazanaph-thalene, pteridine, and 1,4,5,8-tetraazanaphthalene. In all these cases, covalent hydration of the cation has been shown to occur, so the measured pA values are, in fact, equilibrium values involving both hydrated and anhydrous species. The hydrated species are, without... 

Very few values are known for anhydrous organic bases which can undergo covalent hydration, so that, in general, and for such systems cannot be calculated using Eqs. (12) and (13). However, in cases where the pA of the hydrated species can be measured, Eq. (14) can be used to obtain an approximate estimate of K, the equilibrium ratio of hydrated to anhydrous neutral molecules. This treatment has been applied to quinazoline, the nitroquinazolines, and some triazanaphthalenes. 

Heterocyclic structures analogous to the intermediate complex result from azinium derivatives and amines, hydroxide or alkoxides, or Grignard reagents from quinazoline and orgahometallics, cyanide, bisulfite, etc. from various heterocycles with amide ion, metal hydrides,or lithium alkyls from A-acylazinium compounds and cyanide ion (Reissert compounds) many other examples are known. Factors favorable to nucleophilic addition rather than substitution reactions have been discussed by Albert, who has studied examples of easy covalent hydration of heterocycles. 

A fused benzene ring has little effect on the pKa values in the cases of quinoxaline (ca. 0.6) and cinnoline (2.6). Quinazoline has an apparent pAfa of 3.3 which makes it a much stronger base than pyrimidine, but this is due to covalent hydration of the quinazolinium cation (see Section 3.2.1.6.3) the true anhydrous pK.d for equilibrium between the anhydrous cation and anhydrous neutral species of quinazoline is 1.95 (76AHC(20)128). 

Increasing numbers of nitrogen atoms increase not only the kinetic susceptibility toward attack but also the thermodynamic stability of the adducts. Reversible covalent hydration of C = N bonds has been observed in a number of heterocyclic compounds (76AHC(20)117). Pyrimidines with electron-withdrawing groups and most quinazolines show this phenomenon of covalent hydration . Thus, in aqueous solution the cation of 5-nitropyrimidine exists as (164) and quinazoline cation largely as (165). These cations possess amidinium cation resonance. The neutral pteridine molecule is covalently hydrated in aqueous solution. Solvent isotope effects on the equilibria of mono- (166) and dihydration (167) of neutral pteridine as followed by NMR are near unity (83JOC2280). The cation of 1,4,5,8-tetraazanaphthalene exists as a bis-covalent hydrate (168). 

The effect of substituents in the 5-, 6-, 7-, or 8-position of quinazo-line was summed up in the earlier review.38 In general, (—1) substituents promote hydration of the 3,4-bond by lowering the electron density on C-4. Later it was found that a (—1) substituent in the 2-position had the opposite effect. The addition of the negatively charged pole of a water molecule to C-4 is favored by the polarization of the 3,4-bond in this sense —C4 =N—4V But a (—1) group in the 2-position can oppose this polarization. In a study of twenty 2-substituted quinazolines,23 it was found that hydration was helped by (+1) substituents, not greatly affected by (+M), and much diminished by (—I) substituents. The pH rate profile (first-order kinetics) for the hydration of 2-aminoquinazoline, measured from pH 2 to 10, was parabolic,23 typical of molecules that undergo reverse covalent hydration.315... 

In common with many quinazolines, compound (23) crystallizes as a monohydrate. Its H spectrum in CDC13, however, reveals H-4 as a singlet (10.44 ppm) precluding 3,4 addition typical of covalent hydration of quinazolines. The H spectrum in D2S04 gives an H-4 signal 3.32 ppm upheld consistent with 3,4-hydration in aqueous solution <83JHC447>. 

Bromination of 4-(3/T)-quinazoline (11.109, R = H), its 3-methyl derivative (11.109, R = Me), and 1,4-dihydro-l,3-dimethyl-4-oxoquinazoli-nium perchlorate (11.110) occurred in each case at the 6-position, no 8-substitution being observed (though the 6-bromo compounds were slowly converted into the 6,8-dibromo derivatives). At pH <2, all three compounds exist predominantly as cations at pH 0.29 the relative rates for the Me2, Me, and H derivatives were 4.68 1.54 1. The mechanisms are thought to involve attack of bromine on covalent hydrates (76JOC838). 

As expected, this ratio of covalent hydrate to nonhydrated species is less than that measured for quinazoline 142 (5.5 x 10 5). 

Reversible covalent hydration across C=N bonds occurs in a number of nitrogen-containing heterocycles, including pteridine and its 2- and 6-hydroxy derivatives, quinazoline (as the cation), and... 

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