SEPTEMBER,
1962
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The Reaction of 2- and 4-Vinylpyridine with Hydroxylamine, Benzyloxyamine, and Phthalhydrazide IITTDWIG R I I - E R , *!ROO S H O E B , l S N D T'IXCEXT
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Depait??ientof Cherwstrg, College of Pharmacy, CTnirerszty of Illznozs, f'hicnqo 12, iliariozs
Received Maich 8, 1962 The addition of hydroxylamine and benzyloxyamine to 2- and 4-vinylpyridine was shoa n to yield the N,N-dipgridylethyl derivatives. Hoa ever, uhthalhydrazide reacted onlv with one mole of either vinylpyridine. These adducts were further charact,erized by their salts.
The reaction of hydroxylamine hydrochloride isolated as salts. Again, the 4-pyridylet'hyl derivawith 4-vinylpyridine yielded a base, C14H173T30,t'ire, I (R=CcH6CH2), crystallized as the trihywhose infrared spectrum in chloroform solution drobromide, the isomeric 2-pyridyl adduct, I1 showed a band a t 3600 ern.-', characteristic of free (R = C6HaCH2)as the dihydrobromide. Hydrolyhydroxyl groups. The base formed a trihydro- sis of K,K-di [a-(4-p yridyl)ethyl ]benzyloxyamine bromide and a benzoate ester which was isolated I ( R = CsHsCH2), with 48% hydrobromic acid as the dihydrobromide. From this data, this base removed the benzyl group to form the hydroxy is assigned structure I (R = H) . derivative I (R = H) almost quantitatively. A similar hydrolysis of N,S-di [2-(2-pyridyl)ethyl]benzyloxyamine, I1 (R = CsH,CH2), under milder condition furnished the corresponding hydroxylamine, I1 (R=H), thus affording further proof of I 11 structure for the 2-vinylpyridine and hydroxylThe addition of hydroxylamine (as t,he hydro- amine adduct. Benzyloxyamine was best prepared by the hychloride) t'o 2-vinylpyridine mas reported2 to afford a compound C7HIONB0, m.p. 105.9-106.8°, which drolysis of N-benzyloxyphthalimide with concenwas formulated as S- [2-(2-pyridyl)ethyl]hydroxyl- trated hydrochloric acid in acetic acid. This proamine, 2-CsH4SCH2CH2KHOII.However, repe- cedure proved to be superior t'o the conventional tition of this experiment with or wit'hout modifi- cleavage of t'he phthalimido group by hydrazine cation of the procedure always gave us a solid, as originally applied to the synt'hesis of O-alkylm.p. 105-106..5°, CliH17N30,and exhibited a free hydroxylamines.4 The main advantage is that one hydroxyl band in itmsinfrared spectrum (in chloro- avoids any separation of the hydroxylamine form solution) mid fitted the dipyridylethyl hy- derivat'ive from residual hydrazine. The reaction of 2- and 4-vinylpyridines with droxylamine st'ructure, I1 (R = H). The n.m.r. spect'rum also agreed with that struct'ure. The amides and imides has been described. For base was further characterized by a crystalline example, the react'ion with acetamide and propiondihydrobromide.3 Attempts to prepare other func- amide mas catalyzed by sodium metal,5 that of tional derivatives of I or I1 ( R = H ) with a number phthalimide by Triton B6&or piperidinej6b and of conventional reagents-(e.g., acetyl chloride, succinimide also by a basic catalyst.? The reaction of these vinylpyridines with 1,3-benzoxazinearenesulfonyl chlorides, phenyl isocyanate)-gave rise to highly colored gums or amorphous solids, 2,4-dione was carried out neat and in the absence of any catalyst'.6 We have ext,ended the acideither as the free bases or their salts. The reaction of benzyloxyamine wit'h these catalyzed addition of 2- and 4-vinylpyridine to vinylpyridines was studied. It was hoped t'o phthalhydrazide and obt'ained excellent' yields obtain monopyridylethyl derivatives which on adducts, formulated as structure 111. These catalytic hydrogenation could give rise to t'he pyridylethyl adducts were further charact'erized monopyridylethyl hydroxylamine. However, the by their hydrobromide salts. An attempt to addition of benzyloxyamine t'o either 2- or 4- pyridylet'hylat'e N-hydroxyphthalimide in either vinylpyridine afforded an excellent yield of the acid or base gave only starting materials. dipyridylethyl derivatives. As these compounds (4) A. F. McKay, D. L. Garmaise, G. T.Paris, and S. Gelblum, could not be distilled satisfactorily, they were Can. J . Chem., 38, 343 (1960). (1) Present address: Medicinal Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, U. P. India. (2) H. E. Reich and R. Levine, J . A m . Chem. Soc., 77, 5134 (1955). (3) I t is not unusual for dibasic 2-pyridylethyl substituted amines such as 2-CsHdNCHKH2NHR t o form either mono- or dipicrates,Z and tribasic amines such as N-(dialkylaminoalkvl)-N-[2-(2-pyridyl)ethyllanilines t o form dipicrates; see S. Rliapiro, H. Soloway, E. Chodos, and L. Freedman, J . P h a r m . Sci., 60, 1035 (1961).
(5) G. Magnus and R . Levine. J . Am. Chem. Soc., 78, 4127 (1966). (6) (a) F. I
