Action of nucleophilic agents on the pyrimidine ring

It is shown that 2-alkylpyrimidine methiodides in which the alkyl group is activated by electron-acceptor substituents undergo recyclization to the corresponding 2-methylaminopyridines in an alcohol solution of methylamine. Similar recyclization also takes place without quaternization of the pyrimidine ring when there is a strong electron-acceptor substituent (a nitro group) in the ring.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1400–1405, October, 1978.