Triazines cleavage

Attempts to prepare this substance by reduction of dioxotetrahydro-1,3,5-triazine with sodium amalgam,hydroiodic acid, or tin in acetic acid, were accompanied by hydrolytic cleavage of the ring. Only... 

Hydrolytic cleavage of the methylmercapto group usually proceeds very readily and in practically quantitative yield even on short boiling in water acidified with a few drops of hydrochloric acid. The readiness of the hydrolysis can be affected very substantially by substitution as shown in the case of 4-methyl-3-methylmercapto-5-thioxo-4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-triazine which was hydrolyzed only with ZN hydrochloric acid. "... 

The reaction of the fervenulin 1-oxides 100 with secondary amines results in contraction of the 1,2,4-triazine ring to form 2-amino-5,7-dimethylimidazo[4,5-e] pyrimidine-4,6(5/7,7//)-diones 101. The reaction of the same fervenulin 1-oxides 100 with ammonia leads to the 1,2,4-triazine ring cleavage product, 1,3-dimethyl-5-imino-6-isonitrosouracil 102 (94KGS1253). 

Triazines. XIII. The Ring Cleavage of s-Triazine by Primary Amines. 

Scheme 7.27 Microwave-mediated synthesis and UV-induced cleavage of cyclic triazines on a cellulose membrane.

An 8000-member library of trisamino- and aminooxy-l,3,5-triazines has been prepared by use of highly effective, microwave-assisted nucleophilic substitution of polypropylene (PP) or cellulose membrane-bound monochlorotriazines. The key step relied on the microwave-promoted substitution of the chlorine atom in monochlorotriazines (Scheme 12.7) [35]. Whereas the conventional procedure required relatively harsh conditions such as 80 °C for 5 h or very long reaction times (4 days), all substitution reactions were found to proceed within 6 min, with both amines and solutions of cesium salts of phenols, and use of microwave irradiation in a domestic oven under atmospheric reaction conditions. The reactions were conducted by applying a SPOT-synthesis technique [36] on 18 x 26 cm cellulose membranes leading to a spatially addressed parallel assembly of the desired triazines after cleavage with TFA vapor. This concept was later also extended to other halogenated heterocycles, such as 2,4,6-trichloropyrimidine, 4,6-dichloro-5-nitropyrimidine, and 2,6,8-trichloro-7-methylpurine, and applied to the synthesis of macrocyclic peptidomimetics [37]. 

A kinetic study of alkaline hydrolysis of reumycin 311 indicated that OH added reversibly to C-5 to form an intermediate 408, which then decomposed to the triazine 409 (88MI2). At high OH concentrations, the rate-limiting step was the attack of OH on C-5 of 311, whereas at low OH concentrations it was the cleavage of the uracil ring in intermediate 408. 

Thiadiazolines are less stable compared to 1,2,4-thiadiazoles and this can be attributed to the loss of aromatic character. They are readily cleaved at the N-S bond under fairly mild conditions (H2S in pyridine) in some cases, the product from ring cleavage can recyclize to give new heterocyclic ring systems. The 3-imino-l,2,3-thiadiazoline 24 when reduced with H2S affords the two J-triazine derivatives 25 and 26 (Scheme 3) <1996CHEC-II(4)307>. 

Highly substituted pyrrolo[l,2- ][l,2,4]triazines were synthesized from pyrrole derivatives, by closure of the triazine ring. Thus, hydrolytic cleavage of some 1,2-diaminopyrroles having a 1-NH-BOC-protected amino function 43 followed by reaction with 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds afforded a one-pot access to the corresponding bicyclic heterocycles 44 (BOC = f-butoxycarbonyl Equation 6) < 1997J(P 1)1829>. 

Oxidation of triazine herbicides with chlorine and chlorine dioxide has been widely studied [105-108]. In the case of sulfur-containing triazines, oxidation occurs mainly via cleavage of the weakened R-S-CH3 bond rather than by addition of chlorine. Reactions of S-triazines with chlorine are faster than with chlorine dioxide, and form sulfoxide, sulfone, and a sulfone hydrolysis product. Chlorination with chlorine dioxide only produced sulfoxide [108]. Lopez et al. identified the formation of sulfonate esters during the chlorination of ametryn and terbutryn [106, 107]. Triazine DBFs identified by Brix et al. exhibited higher toxicities than the parent compounds [105]. Similar to triazines, clethodim, a cyclohexanedione herbicide, is oxidized by hypochlorite and chloramines to clethodim sulfoxide and then to sulfone [109]. 

The hydrohalogenide additions to oxiranes are ether cleavages, of course. A further example for this reaction type is the quantitative reaction of solid 2,4,6-trimethoxy-s-triazine with HCl gas at 100 °C to give cyanuric acid and methyl chloride [221. 

Nucleophilic attack at substituted ring carbon is probably the most common reaction of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles. However, few examples have been reported of nucleophilic attack at unsubstituted carbon since such compounds (19a) are relatively uncommon. The mechanism of the well-known conversion of 2-amino-oxadiazoles (in aqueous alkali) into triazoles has been studied in the case of the reaction where (19a R = NHPh) is converted to (20). This proceeds via the anion of semi-carbazide PhNHCONHNHCHO and is initiated by hydroxide attack at C-5 <84JCS(P2)537>. A similar nucleophilic attack by hydroxide on oxadiazole (19a R = 5-pyrazolyl) was followed by cyclization to the pyrazolo-triazine (21). Hydrolytic cleavage of 2-ary 1-1,3,4-oxadiazoles to aroyl-hydrazides allows use of the former as protected hydrazides. Oxadiazole (19a R = 4-... 

Hydrolysis of condensed 1,2,3-triazines results in cleavage of the heterocycUc ring and is in many respects an unexceptional and fully predictable type of reaction. The relative ease with which ring fission takes place, and the products formed, depend almost entirely on the nature of the substituents at the 3- and 4-positions and on the reaction conditions employed. Moreover, hydrolysis under basic conditions normally leads to fission of the N,—C4 bond whereas under acidic conditions most 1,2,3-benzotriazine derivatives behave as masked diazonium compounds, and hydrolysis proceeds with fission of the Nj— N3 bond and transient formation of a diazonium compound, from which the observed products are ultimately derived. Hydrolysis of certain derivatives probably also involves covalent hydration as the key step. 

Hydrolytic cleavage of condensed 1,2,3-triazine derivatives is normally a straightforward, high-jneld process which results in production of one or other of several distinct types of product. 3-Alkyl- and 3-aryl-3,4-dihydro-l,2,3-benzotriazines, for example, undergo facile hydrolysis in concentrated hydrochloric acid to give, via the diazonium compound, A(-alkyl- and W-aryl-substituted o-chlorobenzylamines (100, R = Cl). If the reaction is carried out in water or in dilute mineral acid, the corresponding -alkyl and iV-aryl-substituted o-hydroxybenzylamines (100, R = OH) are obtained. 

Treatment of condensed 1,2,3-triazine 3-oxides (15) with either acid or base results in formation of o-azido carbonyl compounds. " Alkaline hydrolysis of the betaines 77, on the other hand, gives the triazenes 53, R = aryl, possibly via rearrangement of the aryl group from Nj to Nj to give 10, R = aryl, followed by ring cleavage. The... 

The limit is reached with 1,3,5-triazine. This reacts very easily even with weak nucleophiles, and ring cleavage nearly always follows. Thus, it behaves as a formylating agent toward amines and other active hydrogen compounds. 

Polyaza rings suffer complete hydrolytic ring cleavage. Monocyclic 1,2,3-triazines are hydrolyzed by acid to yield 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (Scheme 15). 1,2,3-Benzotriazines are easily converted into derivatives of 2-aminobenzaldehyde. 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines (180) are hydrolyzed with a base to give aldehyde hydrazones, RCH = NNHCOR. 

Nucleophilic attack at the fully conjugated 1,3,5-triazine usually results in ring cleavage. Thus, active methylene compounds react with 1,3,5-triazine in aminomethylenation reactions. A three-component reaction of cyclopentadiene with 1,3,5-triazine and a secondary amine leads to /V,7V-di substituted pentafulven-6-amines (304) and N2-(6-pentafulvenyl)formamidines (305)... 

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