Reactions of Hydroxypyrazines

Conversions of hydroxypyrazines to halogenopyrazines by phosphoryl chloride, phenylphosphonic dichloride, phosphorus pentachloride, sulfuryl chloride, thionyl chloride, phosphorus bromides, and other reagents have been discussed in Sections V.IC-V.IF. 

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As already mentioned, hydroxypyrazines exist in tautomeric equilibria with the corresponding pyrazinones which are normally the predominant species in the equilibria. Some of the reactions of hydroxypyrazines are reminiscent of those of phenols they can, for example, be coupled with diazonium salts and brominated and nitrated in either the ortho or para position to the hydroxyl group. Coupling with diazonium salts occurs in neutral or weakly alkaline solution, but if the reaction is carried out in 1 M sodium hydroxide solution, arylation of the pyrazine ring takes place. From hydroxy-pyrazine and benzenediazonium chloride 47% 2-hydroxy-3-phenyl-and 4% 2-hydroxy-3,6-diphenylpyrazine are obtained. 

Direct ring syntheses are also available for the preparation of hydroxypyrazines. Thus, haloacylation of an a-aminoketone, followed by reaction with ammonia and oxidation represents a general synthesis of 5,6-disubstituted and 3,5,6-trisubstituted 2-hydroxypyrazines.339 This is illustrated by the preparation of 5,6-dimethyl-2-hydroxy-pyrazine (Scheme 39). Hydroxypyrazines are very conveniently... 

Jones (361) introduced a very convenient variation of this reaction for the preparation of hydroxypyrazines (55) in which a,/3-dicarbonyl compounds (49) were condensed with a-amino acid amides (54). In this way aminomalonamide (54, R = CONHj) with glyoxal in aqueous sodium hydroxide gave 3-carbamoyl-2-... 

Dunn and co-workers (545, 546) first reported the reaction of a-amino-hydroxamic acids (8) with 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds (9) to give 2-hydroxypyrazine 1-oxides (10). For example, DL-alanine hydroxamic acid (8, R = Me) and diacetyl (9, = Me) gave 2-hydroxy-3,5,6-trimethylpyrazine 1-oxide (10, R = R =... 

The reaction of simple hydroxypyrazines with phosphoryl chloride has been used extensively for the preparation of chloropyrazines. 2-Hydroxypyrazine with phosphoryl chloride alone (818) gave 2-chloropyrazine (819-821), and 2-chloro-[l- N]pyrazine (822) and 2-chloro(2- C)pyrazine (823) have been prepared by the method described by Karmas and Spoerri (362). 

The reactivity of 2-fluoropyrazine with aqueous sodium hydroxide to give 2-hydroxypyrazine has been investigated (882, 884). In 1.07N sodium hydroxide at 26° the reaction followed pseudo-first-order kinetics with a half-life of 43 minutes, whereas under the same conditions 2-chloropyrazine had a half-life of 18 days, and 2-iodopyrazine and 2-fluoropyridine remained unchanged (882, 884). Thus, under the above conditions, 2-fluoropyrazine was 640 times more reactive than 2-chloropyrazine (882). Hydrolysis of 2-fluoropyrazine in 61V hydrochloric acid proceeded at a much slower rate with a half-life of 4 days at room temperature (884). Some literature preparations of hydroxypyrazines by hydrolysis of halogenopyrazines (chloropyrazines with aqueous sodium or potassium hydroxide unless otherwise specified) are as follows 2-hydroxy (150°) (818) 2-hydroxy-3-methyl (reflux) (680) 2-hydroxy-3,5-dimethyl (reflux) (978) 3-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl (reflux) (98, 312, 680, 740) [at 120° (978)] 3-hydroxy-2,5-di- -butyl (powdered potassium... 

The preparations of hydroxypyrazines by primary syntheses have been described in Chapter II, and are summarized briefly, together with further data, as follows Section II.IG, from the reaction of a, 3-dicarbonyl compounds with ammonia [282 (cf. 281, 280), 283, 285] with additional information (1042, 1043) Section II.IM, from 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds with a-amino acids (311) Section II.IN, from a-amino acids through piperazine-2,5-diones (93,95,101,282,312,313)with additional data (843) Section 11.10, from aldehyde cyanohydrins ( ) [317-319 (cf. 282)1 and Section II.IP, from o-nitromandelonitrile and ethereal hydrogen cyanide (325). The preparations from a,iJ-dicarbonyl compounds with a,/ -diamino compounds are described in Section 11.2 (60, 80, 358, 359, 361-365b, 365d, 366-375) additional data have also been reported (824, 825, 827,845,846,971, 1044, 1045) and some reaction products have been isolated as the dihydro-pyrazines (340,341,357). 

Section II.7 describes some ring closures of the C-C-N-C-C, N-C-C-N-C-C, and N-C-C-N-C-C-N systems to give hydroxypyrazines (248, 365a, 477, 479, 480-483) more information can be found in reference 1054. Newbold and Spring (89) described the reaction of 2-bromo-A -(r-methyl-2 -oxopropyl)propionamide with ethanolic ammonia to give 2-hydroxy-3,5,6-trimethylpyrazine and Masaki et al. (551) have described the reaction of A -leucyl-6>-benzyIhydroxylamine (2) with phenacyl bromide in methanol saturated with ammonia to give 3-hydroxy-2-isobutyl-5-phenylpyrazine and 2,5-diphenylpyrazine. 

Ethoxypyrazine 1-oxide refluxed with 40% alcoholic hydrogen chloride yielded 2-ethoxy-5-hydroxypyrazine (1069). Ultraviolet irradiation of 2,5-dimethyl-pyrazine 1-oxide in water afforded 3-hydroxy-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (10%) and 2,5-diphenylpyrazine 1-oxide in benzene gave 3-hydroxy-2,5-diphenylpyrazine (3%) (742). A small yield of 2-ethyI-5-hydroxy-3,6-dimethylpyrazine has been isolated as by-product from the reaction of 2,5-dimethylpyrazine with ethyllithium in ether (615). 

The reaction of an aqueous solution of sucrose with glycinamide at 140° has been reported to give a mixture which contains 2,5-bis(I> fl o-tetrahydroxybutyl)-pyrazine and 2-(D-iiraf>o-tetrahydroxybutyl)-5-hydroxypyrazine (1073) and molasses inverted with 30% sidfuric acid and treated with ammonia under pressure produced a mixture containing 2-hydroxymethylpyrazine, 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-pyrazine, and 2-ara6o-tetrahydroxybutyl-6-methylpyrazine (47). 

Khydroxypyrazine (which was converted into its jV -dimethyl derivative by treatment with dimethyl sulfate and alkali) gave, on reaction with an excess of ethereal diazomethane a mixture of its N,N-, 0,N-, and 0,0-dimethyl derivatives (58-60) (832). 2-Hydroxy-5-methoxy- and 2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-diphenylpyrazine with ethereal diazomethane gave predominantly 2,5-dimethoxy-3,6-diphenyl-pyrazine and only minor amounts of A -methylated products (832). Methylation of 2-hydroxy-6-methoxypyrazine with ethereal diazomethane produced a mixture of 0- and A -methyl derivatives in which the 0-methyl derivative predominated but the corresponding reaction of 2-benzyloxy-6-hydroxypyrazine gave almost exclusively the 0-methyl derivative (832) [the results of these methylations were correlated with the carbonyl stretching frequency (1103) in the parent lactam (832)]. 

Methylation of 2-amino-3-hydroxypyrazine (62) with methyl iodide and sodium methoxide afforded 3-amino-l-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyrazine (63), and when an excess of methyl iodide was used, a mixture of compound (63) and its methio-dide (64) was isolated. Reaction with dimethyl sulfate and alkaU gave compound (63) and l,4-dimethyl-2,3-dioxo-l,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazine (66) the latter was presumed to be formed by hydrolysis of an intermediate quaternary salt since it was also obtained by treatment of the methiodide (64) with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Reaction of 2-amino-3-hydroxypyrazine with ethereal diazomethane produced a mixture of N- and 0-methyl derivatives, (63) and 2-amino-3-methoxy-pyrazine (65). With methyl toluene-p-sulfonate the quaternary salt 2-amino-3-hydroxy-1-methylpyrazinium toluenesulfonate (67) was obtained on alkaline hydrolysis it gave 3-hydroxy-l-methyl-2-oxo-l,2-dihydropyrazine (68) (832). Pulcherriminic acid with diazomethane gave a dimethyl derivative (99). 

The reactions of phosphoryl chloride and some hydroxypyrazine A-oxides with an unsubstituted position adjacent to the A-oxide function to give chlorohydroxy-pyrazines have been described in Section V.IG. In this way 3-hydroxy-2,5-diisobutylpyrazine 1-oxide was converted to 2-chloro-5-hydroxy-3,6-diisobutyl-pyrazine (101) and 2-hydroxy-3,5-diphenylpyrazine 1-oxide gave 2-chloro-6-hydroxy-3,5-diphenylpyrazine (873). 

Several reactions of pyrazinecarboxylic esters have been discussed already reduction to N-alkylpiperazines (Section 3.2.2.2), reduction to extranuclear hydroxypyrazines (Section 5.2.1), and hydrolysis to pyrazinecarboxylic acids (Section 8.1.1). Other reactions to be expected of carboxylic or carboximidic esters are typi-hed in the following class lied examples ... 

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