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Pyridine-N-oxide is the heterocyclic compound with the formula C5H5NO. This colourless, hygroscopic solid is the product of the oxidation of pyridine. Its synthesis was first reported by Jakob Meisenheimer, who used peroxybenzoic acid as the oxidant.[1] The compound is used infrequently as an oxidizing reagent in organic synthesis.[2]
Structure
The structure of pyridine-N-oxide is very similar to that of pyridine with respect to the parameters for the ring. The molecule is planar. The N–O distance is 1.34 Å. The C–N–C angle is 124°, 7° wider than in pyridine.[3]
Synthesis
The oxidation of pyridine can be achieved with a number of peroxy acids, including peracetic acid and peroxybenzoic acid.[4] Oxidation can also be effected by a modified Dakin reaction using a urea–hydrogen peroxide complex,[5] and sodium perborate[6] or, using methylrhenium trioxide (CH3ReO3) as catalyst, with sodium percarbonate.[7]
Reactions
Pyridine N-oxide is five orders of magnitude less basic than pyridine: the pKa of protonated pyridine-N-oxide is 0.8.[8] Protonated derivatives are isolable, e.g., [C5H5NOH]Cl.[4] Further demonstrating its (feeble) basicity, pyridine-N-oxide also serves as a ligand in coordination chemistry. A host of transition metal complexes of pyridine-N-oxides are known.
Some electrophilic substitutions on pyridine rings are usefully effected using pyridine N-oxide followed by deoxygenation. Addition of oxygen suppresses further reactions at nitrogen atom and promotes substitution at the 2- and 4-carbons.[9] For example, treatment of the pyridine-N-oxide with phosphorus oxychloride gives 4- and 2-chloropyridines.[10] The oxygen atom can then be removed, e.g., using zinc dust.[9]
Pyridine-N-oxides are uncommon in nature. 2-(Methyldithio)pyridine-N-oxide and related compounds have been isolated from species of Allium.[11]
The N-oxides of various pyridines are precursors to useful drugs:[12]
Safety
The compound is a skin irritant.[2]
Further reading
References
- ↑ Meisenheimer, Jakob (1926). "Über Pyridin-, Chinolin- und Isochinolin-N-oxyd" (in German). Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 59 (8): 1848–1853. doi:10.1002/cber.19260590828.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kilényi, S. Nicholas; Mousseau, James J. (20 September 2015). "Pyridine N-Oxide". Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–6. doi:10.1002/047084289X.rp283.pub2. ISBN 9780470842898.
- ↑ Ülkü, D.; Huddle, B. P.; Morrow, J. C. (1971). "The Crystal Structure of Pyridine 1-oxide". Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry 27 (2): 432–436. doi:10.1107/S0567740871002334. Bibcode: 1971AcCrB..27..432U.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mosher, H. S.; Turner, L.; Carlsmith, A. (1953). "Pyridine-N-oxide". Org. Synth. 33: 79. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.033.0079.
- ↑ Varma, Rajender S.; Naicker, Kannan P. (1999). "The Urea−Hydrogen Peroxide Complex: Solid-State Oxidative Protocols for Hydroxylated Aldehydes and Ketones (Dakin Reaction), Nitriles, Sulfides, and Nitrogen Heterocycles". Org. Lett. 1 (2): 189–192. doi:10.1021/ol990522n.
- ↑ McKillop, Alexander; Kemp, Duncan (1989). "Further functional group oxidations using sodium perborate". Tetrahedron 45 (11): 3299–3306. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)81008-5.
- ↑ Jain, Suman L.; Joseph, Jomy K.; Sain, Bir (2006). "Rhenium-Catalyzed Highly Efficient Oxidations of Tertiary Nitrogen Compounds to N-Oxides Using Sodium Percarbonate as Oxygen Source". Synlett 2006 (16): 2661–2663. doi:10.1055/s-2006-951487.
- ↑ Chmurzyński, L. (1996). "Studies on correlations of acid-base properties of substituted pyridine N-oxides in solutions. Part 1. Correlations of the p Ka values in non-aqueous solvents and water". Analytica Chimica Acta 321 (2–3): 237–244. doi:10.1016/0003-2670(95)00594-3.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Campeau, Louis-Charles; Fagnou, Keith (2011). "Synthesis of 2-aryl Pyridines By Palladium-catalyzed Direct Arylation of Pyridine N-oxides". Org. Synth. 88: 22. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.088.0022.
- ↑ Scriven, E. F. V. (1984). "Pyridines and their Benzo Derivatives: (ii) Reactivity at Ring Atoms". in Katritzky, Alan R.; Rees, Charles Wayne; Meth-Cohn, Otto. Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry: The Structure, Reactions, Synthesis and Uses of Heterocyclic Compounds. 2. Pergamon Press. pp. 165–314. doi:10.1016/B978-008096519-2.00027-8. ISBN 9780080307015.
- ↑ o'Donnell, Gemma; Poeschl, Rosemarie; Zimhony, Oren; Gunaratnam, Mekala; Moreira, Joao B. C.; Neidle, Stephen; Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios; Bhakta, Sanjib et al. (2009). "Bioactive Pyridine- N -oxide Disulfides from Allium stipitatum". Journal of Natural Products 72 (3): 360–365. doi:10.1021/np800572r. PMID 19093848. Bibcode: 2009JNAtP..72..360O.
- ↑ Shimizu, Shinkichi; Watanabe, Nanao; Kataoka, Toshiaki; Shoji, Takayuki; Abe, Nobuyuki; Morishita, Sinji; Ichimura, Hisao (2000). "Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a22_399.
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