Free radicals in the electrochemical reduction of 1,2-dihydro-3-nitropyridine derivatives

The formation of primary radical anions of N-substituted 1, 2-dihydro-3-nitropyridines was confirmed by the ESR method under conditions of electrochemical generation of free radicals, and their structure was established. The causes of the different ability of 1,2- and 1,4-dihydro-3-nitropyridines to form free radicals during electrochemical reduction that are stable enough to be studied by the ESR method are examined.Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga LV-1006.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1222–1227, September, 1996. Original article submitted May 20, 1996.     

Electrochemical reduction of 1-sulfonylbenz[c,d]indolin-2-ones,and the structure of the free radicals that are formed

In the electrochemical reduction of N-sulfonylbenz[c,d]indolin-2-ones, anion radicals that are detectable by ESR may be formed, with structures that correspond to either the original molecule or isomers of that molecule. Substituents that localize the unpaired electron density on the naphthalene ring system increase the probability of forming ESR-detectable free radicals. In the primary anion radicals, the unpaired electron is localized mainly (>70%) on the naphthalene nucleus. Replacement of the keto group in the molecules of naphthostyrils by a thiocarbonyl group increases the unpaired electron density on the naphthalene ring system of the primary anion radicals. For all of the compounds, parameters of electrochemical reduction in dimethylformamide have been established, under conditions of polarography and cyclic voltammetry.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1068–1078, August, 1993.     

A study of radicals arising in the low-temperature radiolysis of thiophene and some of its derivatives

EPR was used to investigate the radicals formed by radiolysis of furan, thiophene, and some of their substitution products having the general formula C₄H₃RS, where R = Cl, Br, COOH, C(CH₃)₃, and of di-tert-butylthiophene. By analyzing the EPR spectra it is shown that radicals formed by radiolysis of furan, thiophene, their alkyl substitution products, and 2-thiophene carboxylic acid arise in primary radiation-chemical events with splitting of the C-H bond in both ring and side chain. Characteristic of the radiolysis of these compounds is formation of secondary radicals by addition of hydrogen atoms at the double bond of the heteroaromatic ring. The values of the hyperfine splittings in the spectra of the secondary radicals are, for protons of methylene group 32 e [positions 2(5)] or 40 e [positions 3(4)], and 13 e for protons of the thiophene ring. In radiolysis of 2-chlorothiophene and 3-bromothiophene the main products are radicals with the unpaired electron localized on the sulfur atom.     

Mechanism and products of electrochemical reduction of 4-nitrophenyl-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dicyano-1,4-dihydropyridines in dimethylformamide

Free anion radicals of the nitrobenzene and nitrosobenzene type, which were identified by EPR spectroscopy, are formed in the electrochemical reduction of isomeric 4-(nitrophenyl)-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dicyano-1,4-dihydropyridines on mercury and solid electrodes. Reduction of the dihydropyridine ring is observed only for N-substituted p- and m-nitrophenyl derivatives of 1,4-dihydropyridine. An intermediate with a 2-pyridonemethide structure was identified; a set of primary and secondary chemical reactions that are associated with the electrolytic reduction of the investigated compounds is presented.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1494–1505, November, 1988.     

SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF CUTANEOUS PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS—VI. IDENTIFICATION OF THE FREE RADICALS GENERATED DURING THE PHOTOLYSIS OF MUSK AMBRETTE, MUSK XYLENE AND MUSK KETONE

Musk ambrette (4-tert-butyl-3-methoxy-2,5-dinitrotoluene), a common component of perfumes, soaps, and some food flavorings, can cause cutaneous photosensitization reactions including photoallergy. These may be mediated through free radicals formed during photolysis. When musk ambrette was photolyzed under nitrogen in basic methanol, two distinct nitro anion radicals were identified by electron spin resonance. One radical was centered on a nitro group in the plane of the aromatic ring, while the other was centered on a nitro group twisted out of the plane of the ring due to steric hindrance by bulky substituents on either side of the group: the two radicals appeared to interconvert and maintain an equilibrium concentration ratio. Two closely related compounds which are also used in perfumes, but have not been reported to cause photosensitizing reactions, also produced free radicals during photolysis. Musk xylene (2,4,6-trinitro-1,3-dimethyl-5-tert-butylbenzene) generated two nitro anion radicals, both of which were centered on twisted nitro groups, while musk ketone (3,5-dinitro-2,6-dimethyl-4-tert-butylacetophenone) produced only one nitro anion radical, which is also twisted. Athough these nitro anion radicals are probably the first step in the photolysis of these nitroarornatic molecules, it seems likely that in vivo they will undergo further reduction to produce more reactive species including the corresponding nitroso and hydroxylamine derivatives. In addition, autoxidation of the nitro anion radical intermediate forms superoxide.     

Dispiro-1,2,4-trioxane analogues of a prototype dispiro-1,2,4-trioxolane: mechanistic comparators for artemisinin in the context of reaction pathways with iron(II)

Single electron reduction of the 1,2,4-trioxane heterocycle of artemisinin (1) forms primary and secondary carbon-centered radicals. The complex structure of 1 does not lend itself to a satisfactory dissection of the electronic and steric effects that influence the formation and subsequent reaction of these carbon-centered free radicals. To help demarcate these effects, we characterized the reactions of achiral dispiro-1,2,4-trioxolane 4 and dispiro-1,2,4-trioxanes 5-7 with ferrous bromide and 4-oxo-TEMPO. Our results suggest a small preference for attack of Fe(II) on the nonketal peroxide oxygen atom of 1. For 4, but not for 5 and 6, there was a strong preference for attack of Fe(II) on the less hindered peroxide bond oxygen atom. The steric hindrance afforded by a spiroadamantane in a five-membered trioxolane is evidently much greater than that for a corresponding six-membered trioxane. Unlike 1, 5-7 fragment by entropically favored beta-scission pathways forming relatively stable alpha-oxa carbon-centered radicals. These data suggest that formation of either primary or secondary carbon-centered radicals is a necessary but insufficient criterion for antimalarial activity of 1 and synthetic peroxides.     

NMR studies of substituted pyridines

Proton magnetic resonance chemical shifts and coupling constants for a series of 2-substituted-5-nitropyridines and 2-substituted-3-nitropyridines, both in the free base and protonated forms, are reported. The substituents were chloro, bromo, iodo, and hydroxyl. The effect of the substituents on the chemical shifts are substantial but not unusual. The coupling constants are less sensitive to the nature of the substituent and are perturbed only slightly when the ring nitrogen is protonated. This latter observation is consistent with the results of LCAO-MO calculations.     

Free radicals in electrochemical reduction of 1-(nitrophenyl)-3,5-dicarbethoxy-4-phenyl-1,4-dihydropyridines

In the primary electrochemical reduction of 1-(nitrophenyl)-3,5-dicarbethoxy-4-phenyl-1,4-dihydropyridine in DMF, free radicals of nitrophenyl type are formed; these are the products of a one-electron reduction of cathode-protonated molecules of the original compound. In alkaline DMF, where cathodic protonation of the initial compound is retarded, union-radicals of the starting material are generated in addition, together with p-nitrophenol free radicals.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1498–1505, November, 1992.     

Electrochemical reduction of 4-(nitrophenyl)-1,2- and 4-(nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridines and the ESR spectra of the obtained free-radical particles

In the course of electrochemical generation the intermediate reaction products (free radicals of the nitro-and nitrosophenyl type, which appear on the cyclic voltammetric curves) were identified by ESR. The N-substituted derivatives are characterized by reduction of the dihydropyridine ring. The 4-nitrophenyl derivatives are characterized by the absence of intramolecular electron transfer during electrochemical reduction. In the case of the corresponding derivatives of 1,2-dihydropyridine intramolecular transfer of electrons and protons is possible under these conditions. Combined schemes of the primary and secondary chemical reactions involved in the electrochemical reduction of the investigated compounds are presented. It was established that the substances investigated with reference to the mechanism of the electrochemical transformations include the antihypertensive nifedipine (corinfar, fenigidine).Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga LV-1006. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 219–233, February, 1997.     

Nitropyridines as 2π-Partners in 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions with N-Methyl Azomethine Ylide: An Easy Access to Condensed Pyrrolines

1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition reactions of 2-substituted 5-R-3-nitropyridines and isomeric 3-R-5-nitropyridines with N-methyl azomethine ylide were studied. The effect of the substituent at positions 2 and 5 of the pyridine ring on the possibility of the [3+2]-cycloaddition process was revealed. A number of new derivatives of pyrroline and pyrrolidine condensed with a pyridine ring were synthesized.     

甲苯基重氮盐及其与冠醚络合物光解活泼自由基的ESR研究

本文以2,3,5,6-四甲基亚硝基苯(ND)和苯亚甲基叔丁基氮氧化物(PBN)作自由基捕捉剂研究了甲苯基重氮盐及共冠醚络合物光解的自由基历程。ESR结果表明光解可产生相应的甲苯基自由基,并能被ND或PBN所捕获。由共ESR谱可得到甲基取代苯环上的甲基质子通过超共轭作用产生的超精细裂分,共裂分值与苯环上相同位置质子与未偶电子间极化偶合作用引起的裂分值相近。即:α_(p-)~H≈α_(P-)~(CH):α_(o-)~H≈α_(o-)~(CH)3;α_(m-)~H≈α_(m-)~(CH)3.同时还存在下列关系式:α_(p-)~H≈α_(o-)~H>α_(m-)~H.     

A STUDY OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACID CONSTITUENTS EXPOSED TO MONOCHROMATIC 160 nm VACUUM-UV LIGHT BY SPIN-TRAPPING METHOD

Spin-trapping technique was employed to detect and identify free radical intermediates produced in aqueous solutions of nucleic acid constituents (pyrimidine bases and pyrimidine nucleosides) after irradiation by monochromatic 160 nm vacuum-UV light from the electron storage ring. Short-lived free radicals produced in the molecules were converted into relatively long-lived free radicals (spin-adducts) by the reaction with MNP used as a spin trap. The resulting nitroxide radicals were subsequently analysed by esr.
The esr measurements were made after irradiating H₂O solution containing sample and the spin trap and once freeze-drying it and re-dissolving the residual powder in D₂O to get the spectrum with a well-resolved hyperfine structure. Thus, clear evidence that most of the radicals were not formed by H-addition but formed by OH-addition at the C5 position of the 5, 6 double bond were obtained for pyrimidine bases. For pyrimidine nucleosides, although the effect of H₂O-D₂O exchange was not recognized on resolution improvement of the hyperfine structure of the esr spectra, careful analysis of the hyperfine structure made it possible to identify the radical structures; OH-addition radicals at the C6 of the double bond of the base moiety in addition to the OH-addition radicals at the C5 position for all except for 2-deoxycytidine. Evidence for the formation of free radicals at the sugar moiety was not clear.     

Synthesis and spectral data of pyrido[2,3-e]-as-triazines

The pyrido[2,3-e]-as-triazine and its 3-phenyl derivatives were prepared via cyclisation with polyphosphoric acid of suitable 3-substituted 2-aminopyridines obtained by reduction of the corresponding 2-nitropyridines. The 3-substituted 2-nitropyridines were obtained by action of hydrazine or benzoylhydrazide with the appropriate 3-halo-2-nitropyridines; only 3-fluoro-2-nitropyridine leads to the 3-substituted 2-nitropyridines. This experimental results are in agreements with the CNDO and MNDO calculations.     

Molecular rearrangements—XII: Pyrolysis of α-phenylacetanilide

Pyrolysis of α-phenylacetanilide resulted in migration of the benzyl group to the o and p positions of the aniline nucleus and formation of CO, NH₃, toluene benzaldehyde, dibenzyl, trans stilbene, aniline, 9 phenylacridine and 2,3 diphenyl-indole. With o-toluidine as a solvent the previous products were accompanied by 2,3 diphenyl-7-methylindole and 4 amino 3 methyl diphenylmethane. With isoqumoline 1 benzyl isoquinoline and 1,1' bi-isoquinolyl were also obtained.It is concluded that the pyrolysis of phenylacetanilide depends on the homolytic fission of the amide C-N bond into anilino and phenylacetyl free radicals followed by the interaction of the primary and secondary formed radicals with the rearrangement products and solvent nuclei.     

Free radicals of electrochemical reduction of derivatives of 3-nitro-1,4-dihydropyridines

By means of ESR, under conditions of eletrochemical generation of particles, the formation of four types of secondary free radicals has been confirmed in the process of electrochemical reduction of molecules of N-unsubstituted derivatives of 3-nitro-1,4-dihydropyridine in dimthylformamide — specifically, a dianion radical of the molecule of the original compound; an anion radical of the corresponding isomeric 4,5-dihydropyridine; a radical of the nitroalkane type; and in addition, for the compound substituted with a nitrobenzene group; a free radical with the nitrobenzene structure. Methods for synthesis of the individual compounds are described, and a scheme is presented for the mechanism of their electrochemical conversion.Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga LV-1006. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 355–364, March, 1995. Original article submitted February 21, 1995.     

过硫酸盐和脂肪环胺体系引发机理的ESR研究

用ESR方法研究了过硫酸盐和脂肪环胺吗啉,哌啶及其N-烷基取代衍生物体系引发反应的初级自由基,结合端基分析,证实了这类脂肪环胺与过硫酸盐反应产生的初级自由基都能引发烯类单体聚合。当所用的是脂环仲胺时,其初级自由基为氮中心自由基;用脂环叔胺时,初级自由基是N-烷基的α-碳中心自由基。     

ESR spectra of free radicals of 3,3-disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridines produced during electrochemical reduction

The polarographic properties (potentials, number of electrons, reversibility) of the electrochemical reduction of 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-3-(p-nitrobenzoyl)-6-(p-nitrophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine and its derivatives in dimethylformamide have been determined. In the course of the electrochemical generation, ESR spectra of primary radical anions of p-nitrobenzoyl structure were obtained along with ESR spectra of nitrophenyl-p-substituted free radicals formed as a result of further reduction.Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga LV-1006. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1103–1110, August, 1998.     

Etude du caractere nucleophile des radicaux lors de la reaction de transfert sur la liaison O-O des peracides

Peracids RC0₃H yield free radicals R' which react either with the peracid or with solvent giving the alcohol ROH and the hydrocarbon RH. The nucleophilic character of the free radicals was modified either by substitution of the carbon bearing the odd electron by inductive groups or by changing the free radical hybridation by the means of blocked structures such as cyclic or bicyclic free radicals. For each R, the measurement of the ratio ROH/RH establishes a reactivity scale for R with the peracid O-O bond. This reactivity does not depend on free radical stability but depends strongly on nucleophilic character. A primary free radical is less reactive than a secondary one, and is much less reactive than a tertiary one. A bridgehead free radical as the bicyclo[2.2.1]heptyle-1 does not react with the peracid. These results are interpreted to indicate a transition state with charge transfer (polar effect), the peracid being electrophilic and the free radical nucleophilic; PMO theory is discussed.     

Reactions of 3-R-5-nitropyridines with nucleophiles: Nucleophilic substitution vs conjugate addition

A number of 3-R-5-nitropyridines were synthesized and their reactions with various types of nucleophiles were investigated. The reaction outcome depends on the nature of a nucleophile: in case of anionic O-, N- and S-nucleophiles the previously unreported substitution of non-activated nitro group occurred while carbon nucleophiles underwent dearomatization of the pyridine ring with the formation of products of 1,2- and 1,4-addition.     

Free radicals in photolysis of mixed phosphonium–iodonium ylides and in their reactions with acetylenes

UV irradiation of mixed phosphonium–iodonium ylide in CH₂Cl₂ leads to formation of free radicals with lifetimes of a few minutes detected by EPR. In mixtures of ylides with acetylenes, the structure of radicals changes, and their concentration and stability increase. In the presence of acetylenes, the radicals contain ylide and acetylene residues, and their EPR spectra have hyperfine coupling constants typical for ³¹P nuclei in C-radicals and for ¹H nuclei, depending on the acetylene structure. It has been demonstrated that the observed radical products are formed from short-lived primary radicals.