Reactions of pyridine

Additional publications from Sanford et al. describe the full exploration of palladium-catalyzed chelate-directed chlorination, bromination, and iodination of arenes using N-halosuccinimides as the terminal oxidant 06T11483 . Moreover, an electrophilic fluorination of dihalopyridine-4-carboxaldehydes was reported by Shin et al. 06JFC755 . This was accomplished via transmetalation of the bromo derivative, followed by treatment with A-fluorobenzenesulfinimide as the source of electrophilic fluorine. 

Due to their electron deficient character, pyridines are susceptible to nucleophilic attack. Rudler et al. has studied the reaction of pyridines with bis(trimethylsilyl)ketene acetals 06TL4553 06TL4561 . In one instance, they examine the reaction of 

Clayden and co-workers reported the dearomatiztion of an electron-deficient pyridine ring via intramolecular cyclization of an enolate shown in the scheme above 06OL5325 . Generation of the amino acid derived enolate of 46, with simultaneous activation of the pyridine ring by IV-acylation, leads to a stereoselective transition state 47. The authors postulate that the stereoselectivity arises from the manner in which the bulky PMP (p- 

Typically, pyridinium salts are prepared through reaction of an intact pyridine with electrophiles. Marazano el al. used a three-component process as entry into 3-substituted pyridinium salts for the preparation of 49 as shown below 06TL5503 . 

3-Substituted pyridinium salts of this nature were difficult to obtain by other methods. This sequence is initiated with condensation of the anions of imine 50 with malonaldehyde monoacetals 51 to access glutaconaldehyde monoacetals 52. The monoacetal-aldehyde was then reacted with primary amines ( -BuNH2) to give 3-substituted pyridinium salts 49. When the silylimino derivative (R1=Si(CH3)3) was used, substantially higher yields of intermediate glutaconaldehydes were obtained. 

The disclosure of a one-pot directed ortho metalation-boronation and Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of derivatized pyridines 44 to give substituted azabiaryls 45 provided an excellent protocol for the in situ utilization of pyridyl boronic acids whose isolation is known to be difficult 07JOC1588 . The disclosed method relies on the in situ compatibility of LDA and B(Oz-Pr)3 and proceeds in good to excellent yields for the multi-step process. The report details a comprehensive survey of pyridyl boronates and is expected to be of considerable value in the synthesis of bioactive molecules. 

Another novel multi-component reaction involving the synthesis of 4//-pyrido[ 1,2-ajpyrimidines 52, a motif found in many bioactive molecules, was reported by Adib et al. 07T11135 07TL4195 . The reaction involves the formation of a reactive 1 1 zwitterionic intermediate resulting from the addition of isocyanides 53 to dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates 54 followed by trapping with A-(2-pyridyl)amidcs 55. 

Historically, the use of pyridine derivatives as cyclization substrates in the synthesis of fused heterocyclic systems has had great impact in pharmaceuticals, metal-chelation chemistry and other applications. Fused heterocycles incorporating different regioisomers 

DBU as base in DMA was found to give the best ratio of cyclized to uncyclized product formation. 

Functionalized pyridines are important starting scaffolds for pharmaceuticals and nonlinear optics. Gros et al. have developed a new approach to the facile synthesis of various 

Femtodez and co-workers have also reported Suzuki reactions of resin bound pyridine. However in this case, the pyridine is immobilized via an amide bond of a nicotinic ester 05TL581 . Similarly, Schell et al. utilize resin bound nicotinic carboximidamides as a key intermediate in the synthesis of pyrido[2,3- flpyrimidin-4-ones 05JCO96 . 

Harman et al. have demonstrated the dearomatization of 2-substituted pyridine via complexation with tungsten 05JA10568 . The dearomatization process renders the boimd 

Kiplinger and co-workers have also demonstrated dearomatization of pyridines with metals 05CC2591 . In the case reported, thorium complexes mediated ring opening and dearomatization of pyridine Al-oxides yielding the thorium oximate complexes. 

Pyridine V-oxides have also received attention due to their catalytic properties, for example, they have been used as Lewis bases in aldol reactions 05JOC5235, 05SL2388 . Maikov and co-workers elaborated on the use of pyridine V-oxides as a catalyst for allylation of aldehydes with allyltrichlorosilanes 05OL3219 . Additionally, Higuchi et al. report a highly reactive Ru porphyrin/pyridine V-oxide system that shows unique reactivity for the oxidation of various 

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The Zincke reaction is an overall amine exchange process that converts N- 2,A-dinitrophenyl)pyridinium salts (e.g, 1), known as Zincke salts, to iV-aryl or iV-alkyl pyridiniums 2 upon treatment with the appropriate aniline or alkyl amine. The Zincke salts are produced by reaction of pyridine or its derivatives with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene. This venerable reaction, first reported in 1904 and independently explored by Konig, proceeds via nucleophilic addition, ring opening, amine exchange, and electrocyclic reclosure, a sequence that also requires a series of proton transfers. By... 

In 1904, Zincke reported that treatment of Al-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)pyridinium chloride (1) with aniline provided a deep red salt that subsequently transformed into A-phenyl pyridinium chloride 5 (Scheme 8.4.2). Because the starting salt 1 was readily available from the nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction of pyridine with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, the Zincke reaction provided access to a pyridinium salt (5) that would otherwise require the unlikely substitution reaction between pyridine and... 

The importance of the solvent, in many cases an excess of the quatemizing reagent, in the formation of heterocyclic salts was recognized early. The function of dielectric constants and other more detailed influences on quatemization are dealt with in Section VI, but a consideration of the subject from a preparative standpoint is presented here. Methanol and ethanol are used frequently as solvents, and acetone,chloroform, acetonitrile, nitrobenzene, and dimethyl-formamide have been used successfully. The last two solvents were among those considered by Coleman and Fuoss in their search for a suitable solvent for kinetic experiments both solvents gave rise to side reactions when used for the reaction of pyridine with i-butyl bromide. Their observation with nitrobenzene is unexpected, and no other workers have reported difficulties. However, tetramethylene sulfone, 2,4-dimethylsulfolane, ethylene and propylene carbonates, and salicylaldehyde were satisfactory, giving relatively rapid reactions and clean products. Ethylene dichloride, used quite frequently for Friedel-Crafts reactions, would be expected to be a useful solvent but has only recently been used for quatemization reactions. ... 

The most thoroughly investigated compounds are the alkyl-pyridines. Coleman and Fuoss compared the reactions of pyridine, 4-picoline, and 4-isopropylpyridine with n-butyl bromide and found a steady increase in the rate in the order given the activation energies are 16.0,15.95, and 15.6 kcal per mole, respectively. Brown and Cahn carried out a detailed study of the reactions of 2-, 3-, and 4-alkyl-pyridines with methyl, ethyl, and isopropyl iodides in nitrobenzene the results are given in Table II. These data show the higher activation... 

Swain and Eddy have queried the wide applicability of the S l and Sif2 mechanisms and favored a push-pull termolecular process for the reaction of pyridine with methyl bromide in benzene solution for example, they have suggested that the effects observed on the addition of methanol, phenol, p-nitrophenol, and mercuric bromide to the reaction mixture can be explained by an intermediate of type 168. ... 

In spite of the potential complexity of the general problem, even when restricted to the reagent family of amines, the nucleophilicities of such series as meta- and pom-substituted pyridines and anilines appear to correlate very closely with the expected substituent effects and with the basicities. This has been verified in the following cases (i) The reaction of pyridines (R = H, m- andp-CHs) with 2-chloro-3-nitro-, 2-chloro-5-nitro-, and 4-chloro-3-nitro-pyridines. ... 

Halopyridines undergo self-quaternization on standing while the less reactive 2-halo isomers do not. However, more is involved here than the relative reactivity at the ring-positions. The reaction rate will depend on the relative riucleophilicity of the attack-ing pyridine-nitrogens (4-chloropyridine is more basic) and on the much lower steric hindrance at the 4-position. Related to this self-quatemization are the reactions of pyridine and picolines as nucleophiles with 4-chloro- and 2-chloro-3-nitropyridines. The 4-isomer (289) is. again the more reactive by 10-30-fold (Table VII, p. 276). 

Reactions of pyridine with a number of alkyl radicals generated by this method have been studied (Section... 

A. By-products from the Reaction of Pyridine with Degassed... 

Several products other than 2,2 -biaryls have been isolated following reaction of pyridines with metal catalysts. From the reaction of a-picoline with nickel-alumina, Willink and Wibaut isolated three dimethylbipyridines in addition to the 6,6 -dimethyl-2,2 -bipyridine but their structures have not been elucidated. From the reaction of quinaldine with palladium-on-carbon, Rapoport and his co-workers " obtained a by-product which they regarded as l,2-di(2-quinolyl)-ethane. From the reactions of pyridines and quinolines with degassed Raney nickel several different types of by-product have been identified. The structures and modes of formation of these compounds are of interest as they lead to a better insight into the processes occurring when pyridines interact with metal catalysts. 

The crude 2,2 -bipyridine obtained from the reaction of pyridine and degassed Raney nickel was found to contain 1.5% of 2 6, 2"-terpyridine, but no 2,2 2, 2" 6 ",2 "-quaterpyridine could be detected. Moreover, experiments with 2,2 -bipyridine and Raney nickel have failed to yield quaterpyridine, and the amount of terpyridine formed in experiments with mixtures of pyridine and 2,2 -bipyridine was found to be no higher than in the reaction with pyridine itself. " ... 

The most important by-product formed in the reaction of pyridine with degassed Raney nickel is an organonickel complex which has been shown to be a complex of one molecule of 2,2 -bipyridine, two molecules of 2,2 -pyrrolylpyridine (17), and one nickel II ion. It is significant that, although the formation of 2,2 -bipyridine ceases after 50 hr refluxing, the formation of this complex continues for at least another 140 hr. 

Problem 24.22 Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions of pyridine normally occur at C3. Draw... 

The reaction of pyridine-2,3-diamine with ethyl benzoylacetate gives a single product whose structure 8 follows from the fact that fusion gives the rearranged product 9296 (see Section 4.1.3.3.2.2.2.). 

RATE PARAMETERS FOR REACTION OF PYRIDINE-N-OXIDES WITH HN03-H2S04... 

Although N-(4-pyridyl)pyridinium chloride hydrochloride is formed by reaction of pyridine with thionyl chloride, followed... 

Brown and McDonald (1966) provided another type of kinetic evidence for these size relationships by determining secondary kinetic isotope effects in reactions of pyridine-4-pyridines with alkyl iodides. For example, the isotopic rate ratio in the reaction between 4-(methyl-d3)-pyridine and methyl iodide at 25-0 C in nitrobenzene solution was determined to be kjyfk = l-OOl, while that in the corresponding reaction with 2,6-(dimethyl-d6)-pyridine was 1-095. (Brown and McDonald (1966) estimate an uncertainty of 1% in the k jk values.) Furthermore, the isotopic rate ratio in the case of the 2-(methyl-d3)-compound increased from 1 030 to 1-073 as the alkyl group in the alkyl iodide was changed from methyl to isopropyl, i.e. the isotope effect increased with increasing steric requirements of the alkyl iodide. 

Hoomaert has studied Diels-Alder reactions of pyridine oquinodimethane analogs generated from functionalized o-bis(chloromethyl)pyridines <96T(52)11889>. The photochemical cycloaddition of 2-alkoxy-3-cyano-4,6-dimethylpyridine with methacrylonitrile gives a bicyclic azetine, 6-alkoxy-3,5-dicyano-2,5,8-trimethyl-7-azabicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,7-diene, in moderate yield <96CC1349>. Regiospecific hydroxylation of 3-(methylaminomethyl)pyridine to 5-(methylaminomethyl)-2-(17/)-pyridone by Arthrobacter ureafaciens has been reported <96MI173>. 

Reaction of pyridine N-oxide 860 with excess allyltrimethylsilane 82 affords, via 947, 2-propenylpyridine 948 in 53% yield as the only reaction product which can be isolated. Ehmination of trimethylsilanol 4 from 947 is apparently followed by fluoride-catalyzed isomerization of 2-allylpyridine into 2-propenylpyridine 948. 3-Methylpyridine-N-oxide 867 a is converted into 2-propenyl-3-methylpyridine in 69% yield. Likewise, fluoride-catalyzed addition of excess benzyltrimethylsilane 83 to 860 furnishes, via 949, 2-benzylpyridine 950 in 70% yield. The generated leaving group trimethylsilanol 4 reacts with excess allyltrimethylsilane 82 or benzyltrimethylsilane 83 in the presence of fluoride to give hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) 7 and propylene or toluene, respectively [60] (Scheme 7.16). 

Although these reactions are formulated as ionic reactions via 947 and 949, because of the apparent partial formation of polymers and inhibition of the fluoride-catalyzed reaction of pyridine N-oxide 860 with aUyl 82 or benzyltrimethylsilane 83 by sulfur or galvinoxyl yet not by Tempo, a radical mechanism caimot be excluded [61, 62]. The closely related additions of allyltrimethylsilane 82 (cf. Section 7.3) to nitrones 976 are catalyzed by TMSOTf 20 to give, via 977, either o-unsatu-rated hydroxylamines 978 or isoxazoHdines 979 (cf also the additions of 965 to 962a and 969 in schemes 7.20 and 7.21). 

Scheme 10.85 Al-catalysed Reissert reactions of pyridine derivatives with S/O-ligands.

In marked contrast, AS of the exchange reaction of oxygen in a six-coordinated complex, trans-[Re02(py)4] + is negative, ( - 32 JKT1 mol-1), suggesting that the reaction proceeds by a dissociative mechanism. This is also supported by the kinetic analysis of the exchange reaction of pyridine on trans-[M02(py)4]+ (M = Tc or Re), which was monitored by H-NMR [15] ... 

Reaction of pyridines with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of isocyanates in dry CH2C12 at room temperature produced 1-substituted 2-oxo-l,9a-dihydro-2/7-pyrido[l,2-tf]pyrimidine-3,4-dicarboxylates <2004TL1803>. One-pot, three-component synthesis of 1-substituted 2-oxo-l,llb-dihydro-2//-pyrimido[2,l- ]iso-quinoline-3,4-dicarboxylates and 4-(3-chloro-4-methylphenyl)-3-oxo-4,4a-dihydro-3/7-pyrimido[l,2-tf]quinoline-l,2-dicarboxylate was realized by the reaction of isoquinoline and quinoline with isocyanates and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates <2004S861>. Diastereomeric mixtures of l-tosyl-2-aryl-l,llb-dihydro-2/7-pyrimido[2,Ttf]isoquinoline-3,4-dicarboxylates were obtained from isoquinoline, iV-tosyl-benzaldehyde imines, and DMAD <2002OL3575>. 

Compounds 39 and 40, in which a pyrazole ring is fused to a pyrido[2,3-2,]pyrazinc, are produced as a 3 2 mixture by reaction of pyridine-2,3-diamine with 3-methyl-l-phenylpyrazoline-4,5-dione (Equation 9) <1999T8475>, and the synthesis of compound 41 (Scheme 11) exemplifies a different approach to the same ring system <1997JCM318, 1997JRM2026>. 

An interesting iridium-catalysed 5-CH boronation of 2,3-dimethylpyrazine was reported incidentally in a paper mainly devoted to the reaction of pyridines. The product 89 was used in a Suzuki coupling <06AG(I)489>. Selective mono coupling of 2,6-dichloropyrazine with boronic acids, followed by amine displacement of the second chlorine has been used to prepare potential anti-cancer compounds <06JMC407>. A full paper has been published on the chelation-driven selective Suzuki coupling of the pyridinium ylides 90 <06TL6457>. 

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