S. Sirakanyan, V. G. Kartsev, D. Spinelli
Aug 19, 2014
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Tetrahedron
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Abstract The reactivity of 4-cyano-1,3-dichloro-7-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2,7-naphthyridine 1 with nucleophiles has been investigated. The different reactivity of the two chlorine atoms in 1 enabled us to obtain, by using different experimental conditions, the mono- and the di-amino-substituted derivatives of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2,7-naphthyridines 2 and 3, respectively. Thus, by carrying out the reaction in a low-boiling solvent and in the presence of a quasi-stoichiometric amount of amine, the mono-substituted derivatives 2 were obtained, which under harsher conditions was transformed into the diamino derivatives 3 when using an excess of amine. During the synthesis of some diamino derivatives 3 a new rearrangement was observed with formation of 1-oxo derivatives of 3,4-dihydro-2,7-naphthyridines 4. The structure of the unexpected compounds 4 was confirmed by X-ray crystallography. A mechanism for the rearrangement is tentatively suggested.