2.4.6- Triarylpyrylium salts, reaction with

Triarylpyrylium salts react with hydrazine to give 4//-l,2-diazepines 472-1°s,ioo vja g unstable intermediates 3.110 The reaction fails with pyrylium salts containing alkyl groups in positions 2 and 6, with the exception of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylpyrylium perchlorate. In some cases it is advantageous to use a thiapyrylium salt in place of the pyrylium salt. Selected examples are given. 

The triaryl compounds 290 (R = Ar) are prepared by condensation of 2-aminophenol with triarylpyrylium salts followed by treatment with alkali. The triphenyl betaine (290 R = Ph) is obtained as a purple solid, mp 165 C (decomp), which shows large thermo/solvatochromic effects. Oxidation of the betaine 290 (R = Ph) with hydrogen peroxide gives the triphenyl-pyridinium-3-olate 291 (R = Ph) (see Section III,A,2) and the pyrrole 292 (R = Ph). The mechanism of this unusual reaction has not yet been Established. 

Interest in the use of pyrylium salts in synthesis continues. 2-Methylpyridinium salts are converted into the 2-arylpyridinium compound on reaction with 2,4,6-triarylpyrylium salts in the presence of base. The methylpyridinium salt is deprotonated to the anhydrobase which behaves as an enamine, attacking the pyrylium salt at C-2, promoting a ring opening - ring closure sequence which culminates in the effective arylation of the pyridinium salt. 

Systems Containing Two Different Heteroatoms 6.1 Oxazepines.- 2-Substituted triaryl-1,2-oxazepinium perchlorates, the first examples of seven-membered heterocyclic cations with eight n-electrons, have been prepared by the reaction of 2,4,6-triarylpyrylium salts with nitrones, or N-arylhydroxylamines,... 

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