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This term denotes all compounds with substituents containing atoms other than carbon, and includes heterocyclic compounds. 

In readily available (see p. 22f.) cyclic imidoesters (e.g. 2-oxazolines) the ot-carbon atom, is metallated by LDA or butyllithium. The heterocycle may be regarded as a masked formyl or carboxyl group (see p. 22f.), and the alkyl substituent represents the carbon chain. The lithium ion is mainly localized on the nitrogen. Suitable chiral oxazolines form chiral chelates with the lithium ion, which are stable at —78°C (A.I. Meyers, 1976 see p. 22f.). 

The condensation of aldehydes or ketones with secondary amines leads to "encunines via N-hemiacetals and immonium hydroxides, when the water is removed. In these conjugated systems electron density and nudeophilicity are largely transferred from the nitrogen to the a-carbon atom, and thus enamines are useful electroneutral d -reagents (G.A. Cook, 1969 S.F. Dyke, 1973). A bulky heterocyclic substituent supports regio- and stereoselective reactions. 

The problem of the synthesis of highly substituted olefins from ketones according to this principle was solved by D.H.R. Barton. The ketones are first connected to azines by hydrazine and secondly treated with hydrogen sulfide to yield 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines. In this heterocycle the substituents of the prospective olefin are too far from each other to produce problems. Mild oxidation of the hydrazine nitrogens produces d -l,3,4-thiadiazolines. The decisive step of carbon-carbon bond formation is achieved in a thermal reaction a nitrogen molecule is cleaved off and the biradical formed recombines immediately since its two reactive centers are hold together by the sulfur atom. The thiirane (episulfide) can be finally desulfurized by phosphines or phosphites, and the desired olefin is formed. With very large substituents the 1,3,4-thiadiazolidines do not form with hydrazine. In such cases, however, direct thiadiazoline formation from thiones and diazo compounds is often possible, or a thermal reaction between alkylideneazinophosphoranes and thiones may be successful (D.H.R. Barton, 1972, 1974, 1975). 

Best Synthetic Methods is now 10 years old, is a family of 16 volumes and has been well received by the majority of chemists as a valuable aid in their synthetic endeavours, be they academic or commercial. The focus of the series so far has been on special methods, reagents or techniques. This volume is the first of a new sub-series with a focus on heterocycles and their synthesis. It is amazing the extent to which each heterocyclic type has its own specialized synthetic methodology. Whether the chemist is endeavouring to make a heterocycle by ring synthesis or wishes to introduce specific substituents, it is the intention that this new development will serve their needs in a practical, authoritative, fully illustrative and compact manner. Richard Sundberg is an authority on indole chemistry and it is a pleasure to have such a noted heterocyclist to initiate this venture. 

The nature of the substituent on the exocyclic nitrogen also influences the ambident activity of anion 48 in DMF (Scheme 35) when R is an heterocyclic ring, nitrogen alkylation predominates (189) when R is a methylamino group, a mixture of the two isomers is reported (190) when... 

A 2-methylthio substituent decreases the basicity of thiazole pK = 2.52) by 0.6 pK unit (269). The usual bathochromic shift associated with this substituent in other heterocycles is also found for the thiazole ring (41 nm) (56). The ring protons of thiazole are shielded by this substituent the NMR spectrum of 2-methylthiothiazole is (internal TMS, solvent acetone) 3.32 (S-Me) 7.3 (C -H) 6.95 (Cj-H) (56, 270). Typical NMR spectra of 2-thioalkylthiazoles are given in Ref. 266. 

Mercaptoselenazoies with Q to C,o cyclic hydrocarbon substituents in the 4-position have been mentioned as giving negative images from photosolubie emulsions (38. 39). Equally cited are other heterocycles such as thiazole. oxazole, or imidazole. 

Selenium heterocycles receive far less mention in the literature than do such homologs as oxazole, thiazole, or imidazole. In fact, preparative methods of selenium heterocycles are much more limited than for the other series, mainly because of manipulatory difficulties arising from the toxicity of selenium (hydrogen selenide is even more toxic) that can produce severe damage to the skin, lungs, kidneys, and eyes. Another source of difficulty is the reactivity of the heterocycle itself, which can easily undergo fission, depending on the reaction medium and the nature of the substituents. 

In the second, which belongs to a systematic study of the transmission of substituent effects in heterocyclic systems, Noyce and Forsyth (384-386) showed that for thiazole, as for other simple heterocyclic systems, the rate of solvolysis of substituted hetero-arylethyl chlorides in 80% ethanol could be correlated with a constants of the substituent X only when there is mutual conjugation between X and the reaction center. In the case of thiazole this situation corresponds to l-(2-X-5-thiazolyl)ethyl chlorides (262) and l-(5-X-2-thiazolyl)ethyl chlorides (263). 

Thiazoles with Heterocyouc Substituents. Thiazoles with heterocyclic substituents in the 2- or 4-position have been synthesized (Table II-9). Thus thioacetamide (or its a-substituted derivatives) react with bromomethyl heteroarylketones under reflux in alcohol to give the corresponding 2-methyl-4-heteroarylthiazoles heteroaryl groups in the 4-position were 2 -thienyl (213, 692) a-pyrrolyl and 3-method derivatives... 

Mercaptothiazoles with heterocyclic substituents in the 4-position have also been prepared (292, 508, 602). For example, N-alkyl-2-benzimidazolyl chloromethylketones (169) give the corresponding 2-mercaptothiazole derivatives (170) with R, = H, Me, CHjPh, Ac, COPh and R2==H, Me, 5,6-dichloro (Scheme 86) (602). 

The quatemization reaction of the thiazole nitrogen has been used to evaluate the steric effect of substituents in heterocyclic compounds since thiazole and its alkyl derivatives are good models for such study. In fact, substituents in the 2- and 4-positions of the ring only interact through their steric effects (inductive and resonance effects were constant in the studied series). The thiazole ring is planar, and the geometries of the ground and transition states are identical. Finally, the 2- and 4-positions have been shown to be different (259. 260). 

A cyclic acetal in which the two acetal oxygen atoms form part of a ring may be named (1) as a heterocyclic compound or (2) by use of the prefix methylenedioxy for the group —O—CH2—O— as a substituent in the remainder of the molecule. For example. 

As a class of compounds, nitriles have broad commercial utility that includes their use as solvents, feedstocks, pharmaceuticals, catalysts, and pesticides. The versatile reactivity of organonitnles arises both from the reactivity of the C=N bond, and from the abiHty of the cyano substituent to activate adjacent bonds, especially C—H bonds. Nitriles can be used to prepare amines, amides, amidines, carboxyHc acids and esters, aldehydes, ketones, large-ring cycHc ketones, imines, heterocycles, orthoesters, and other compounds. Some of the more common transformations involve hydrolysis or alcoholysis to produce amides, acids and esters, and hydrogenation to produce amines, which are intermediates for the production of polyurethanes and polyamides. An extensive review on hydrogenation of nitriles has been recendy pubHshed (10). 

Many chemical compounds have been described in the Hterature as fluorescent, and since the 1950s intensive research has yielded many fluorescent compounds that provide a suitable whitening effect however, only a small number of these compounds have found practical uses. Collectively these materials are aromatic or heterocycHc compounds many of them contain condensed ring systems. An important feature of these compounds is the presence of an unintermpted chain of conjugated double bonds, the number of which is dependent on substituents as well as the planarity of the fluorescent part of the molecule. Almost all of these compounds ate derivatives of stilbene [588-59-0] or 4,4 -diaminostilbene biphenyl 5-membeted heterocycles such as triazoles, oxazoles, imidazoles, etc or 6-membeted heterocycles, eg, coumarins, naphthaUmide, t-triazine, etc. 

The spectroscopic properties of the /V-nitrosamines, especially the nmr and mass spectra, vary widely depending on the substituents on the amine nitrogen (44—47). The nmr spectra are affected by the E—Z isomerism around the N—N partial double bond and by the axial—equatorial geometry resulting from conformational isomerism in the heterocycles (44,45). Some general spectral characteristics for typical dialkylnitrosamines and simple heterocycHc nitrosamines are given in Table 1. 

If the dye contains no mobile substituents ia the chain, nucleophiles attack primarily the end carbon atoms (changing of terminal residues). Streptocyanines can be hydroly2ed ia aqueous alkaline solution to form the corresponding merocyanines and then the oxonoles (71,72). These processes are reversible. Nucleophilic reactions with the methylene bases of the corresponding heterocycles result ia polymethines containing new end groups (Fig. 

Hydroxy-, Hydroxyall l-, and Aminoall lpyridines. A full discussion of the tautomerism occurring in heterocycles with oxygen and sulfur substituents has been pubUshed (38). Equation 2 shows the tautomerism expected in 2-pyridone (16) and 4-pyridone (38). 

Many studies have been made of substituent effects in saturated heterocyclic six-membered rings. For a detailed discussion the review of Eliel and Pietrusziewicz should be consulted [Pg.15]

Other forms of tautomerism are much less commonly encountered in heterocyclic six-membered rings. Like protons, acyl groups can occupy alternative positions, on a ring atom or a substituent (e.g. 92 93), and their migration from one position to another is frequently... 

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