Pyridine substrates

BZOSO2CF3, —78°, CH2CI2, a few minutes. With acid-semsitive substrates pyridine is used as a cosolvent. This reagent also reacts with ketals, epoxides, and aldehydes. ... 

Fig. 2. Three-dimensional structure of M. tuberculosis dihydropicolinate reductase consisting of the Rossmann-fold domain with bound NAD (stick representation and the catalytic domain with bound the substrate pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid (stick representation (100).

Substrate Pyridine nucleotideox Flavin nucleotideox 2 Cytochromeo... 

The sulphonic acids are usually prepared by the action of sulphuric acid upon a compound. The concentration of the acid and the temperature of reaction are varied according to the reactivity of the compound. Often oleum is used or even chiorosulphonic acid. Alternatively sulphur trioxide complexed to pyridine or dioxan can be used with reactive substrates. Aminosulphonic acids such as sulphanilic and naphthionic acids are most conveniently prepared by heating the sulphate of the amine at ISO C. 

The value of the second-order rate constant for nitration of benzene-sulphonic acid in anhydrous sulphuric acid varies with the concentration of the aromatic substrate and with that of additives such as nitromethane and sulphuryl chloride. The effect seems to depend on the total concentration of non-electrolyte, moderate values of which (up to about 0-5 mol 1 ) depress the rate constant. More substantial concentrations of non-electrolytes can cause marked rate enhancements in this medium. Added hydrogen sulphate salts or bases such as pyridine... 

As early as 1889 Walker (320), using samples of thiazole, 2,4-dimethylthiazoie, pyridine, and 2,6-dimethylpyridine obtained from Hantzsch s laboratory, measured the electrical conductivity of their chlorhydrates and compared them with those of salts of other weak bases, especially quinoline and 2-methylquinoline. He observed the following order of decreasing proton affinity (basicity) quinaldine>2,6-dimethyl-pyridine>quinoline>pyridine>2,4-dimethylthiazole> thiazole, and concluded that the replacement of a nuclear H-atom by a methyl group enhanced the basicity of the aza-aromatic substrates. 

These results show that in the phenylation of thiazole with benzoyl peroxide two secondary reactions enter in competition the attack of thiazole by benzoyloxy radicals, leading to a mixture of thiazolyl benzoates, and the formation of dithiazolyle through attack of thiazole by the thiazolyl radicals resulting from hydrogen abstraction on the substrate and from the dimerization of these radicals. This last reaction is less important than in the case of thiophene but more important than in the case of pyridine (398). 

Grignard reagent comes from the substitution products it gives with various reactive substrates. When the low-temperature adduct is heated in an autoclave at 90 to 170 C for 3 to 6 hr, it does not rearrange to 2-ethylthiazole (12) as is the case in the pyridine series (436). 

TABLE III-37. COMPARISON OF THE RELATIVE REACTIVITIES (WITH RESPECT TO BENZENE) OF VARIOUS PYRIDINE SUBSTRATES towards PHENYL AND 2-THIAZOLYL RADICALS AT 70 TO... 

Pyridine Substrate Peroxide (Source) Aniline+ NOOR A a B 2-Amino- thiazole NOOR ... 

Sulfonate esters are especially useful substrates in nucleophilic substitution reactions used in synthesis. They have a high level of reactivity, and, unlike alkyl halides, they can be prepared from alcohols by reactions that do not directly involve bonds to the carbon atom imdeigoing substitution. The latter aspect is particularly important in cases in which the stereochemical and structural integrity of the reactant must be maintained. Sulfonate esters are usually prepared by reaction of an alcohol with a sulfonyl halide in the presence of pyridine ... 

Oxidations usually proceed in the dark at or below room temperature in a variety of solvents ranging from aqueous bicarbonate to anhydrous benzene-pyridine. Base is quite commonly used to consume the hydrogen halide produced in the reaction, as this prevents the formation of high concentrations of bromine (or chlorine) by a secondary process. The reaction time varies from a few minutes to 24 hours or more depending on the nature of the reagent and the substrate. Thus one finds that NBS or NBA when used in aqueous acetone or dioxane are very mild, selective reagents. The rate of these oxidations is noticeably enhanced when Fbutyl alcohol is used as a solvent. In general, saturated, primary alcohols are inert and methanol is often used as a solvent. 

Reactions with selenium dioxide appear to be sensitive to the medium employed. Refluxing t-butanol is the usual solvent, often with small amounts of acid present, although pyridine has been introduced with acid labile substrates. 

Reactions of alcohols with sulfur tetrafluoride, because of decomposition and/or polymerization, usually do not give fluorinated products However, in the presence of a hydrogen fluoride scavenger like triethylamine or pyridine, even such sensitive substrates as benzylic alcohols [555], 2-phenylethanol, and 2-furylmethanol [554] can be fluorinated to give the expected fluoro derivatives (equation 73)... 

The data show that in some cases basicity has a strong influence on reactivity. For example, the reaction of 2-chloropyridine derivatives with piperidine is about 3000 times as fast as that with pyridine the basicity change involved is in the order of 6 pA units. However, piperidine is only 4 times as reactive as morpholine with 2- or 4-chloropyrimidine as the substrate, although -dpAo in these cases is still fairly large, 2.5 units. Furthermore, even the qualitative correlation sometimes fails, and aniline is more reactive than pyridine in contrast to the expectations from their basicities. 

Finally, these reactions do not seem to be appreciably dependent on the structure of the substrate since methoxy- and ethoxy-dehalogen-ation in their respective alcohols proceed at nearly the same rate with each of the substrates, 2- and 4-chloroquinoline and 2-bromo-pyridine. ... 

In 2-substituted dinitrothiophenes, phenylsulfone and p-nitro-phenoxy groups both react faster than the chloro group with pyridine, i.e., in a reverse order with respect to l-substituted-2,4-dinitro-benzenes, although with both substrates the factors involved are small. 

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