Effect of benzo annelation on the Chichibabin reaction

The kinetics of amination with sodium amide (the Chichibabin reaction) for six azines and five azoles and the kinetics of the piperidinolysis of 2-chloro-substituted azole systems were studied. The following orders of reactivities were established for the Chichibabin reaction: isoquinoline > phenanthridine > benzo[h]quinoline > benzo[f]quinoline > pyridine acridine and 1-methylbenzimidazole > 1-methylnaphth[2,3-d]imidazole > 1-methylperimidine > 1-methylnaphth[1,2-d]imidazole > 3-methylnaphth-[1,2-d]imidazole. The changes in the reactivities are explained by the changes in the hydride labilities of the corresponding complexes.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp, 257–261, February, 1979.