Pyrylium salt

Pyrylium
Names
IUPAC name
Pyrylium
Other names
Pyranium
Identifiers
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ChEBI CHEBI:36120 N
ChemSpider 7827742 N
PubChem 9548819
Properties
C5H5O+
Molar mass 81.09 g/mol
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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The pyrylium cation is a six-membered, unsaturated, mono-cyclic compound. Consisting of five carbon atoms and one positively charged oxygen atom, it is a heterocyclic compound, resembling benzene with one substitution in the ring. Like benzene, it is aromatic, and a conjugated system. Having three bonds on its positively charged oxygen atom, pyrylium is an oxonium ion.

Derivatives of the pyrylium cation are also called pyrylium.

A pyrylium salt is a salt containing a pyrylium cation or a derivative cation.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Chemical properties

Like other oxonium ions, pyrylium is unstable in neutral water. However, pyrylium is much less reactive than ordinary oxonium ions because of aromatic stabilization. Pyrylium cations react with nucleophiles in the 2, 4, and 6 positions, which can induce ring-opening reactions. The high electronegativity of the oxygen results in the strongest single perturbation by one heteroatom in a six-membered ring.

Synthesis

Being aromatic, pyrylium salts are easily produced from simple starting materials.

Pyrylium salts with aromatic substituents, such 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium tetrafluoroborate, can be obtained from two moles of acetophenone and one mole of benzaldehyde in the presence of tetrafluoroboric acid and an oxidizing agent (Dilthey synthesis). For pyrylium salts with alkyl substituents, such as 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium salts, the best method uses the Balaban-Nenitzescu-Praill synthesis from tertiary butanol and acetic anhydride in the presence of tetrafluoroboric, perchloric, or trifluoromethanesulfonic acids.[7][8] 2,4,6-Triphenylpyrylium salts are converted by bases into stable a 1,5-enedione (pseudobase), but 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium salts on treatment with hot alkali hydroxides afford an unstable pseudobase that undergoes an intramolecular condensation yielding 3,5-dimethylphenol. In warm deuterium oxide, 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium salts undergo isotopic exchange of 4-methyl hydrogens faster than for the 2- and 6-methyl groups, allowing the synthesis of regioselectively deuterated compounds.

Derivatives

The reactivity of pyrylium salts toward nucleophiles makes them useful materials for producing other compounds with stronger aromatic character. Pyrylium salts afford pyridines with ammonia,[9] pyridinium salts with primary amines, pyridine-N-oxides with hydroxylamine, phosphabenzenes with phosphine derivatives, thiopyrylium salts with hydrogen sulfide, and benzene derivatives with acetonitrile or nitromethane.

Pyrones

A pyrylium cation with a hydroxyl anion substituent in the 2-position is not the zwitterionic aromatic compound (1), but a neutral unsaturated lactone or an 2-pyrone or pyran-2-one (2). Important representatives of this class are the coumarins. Likewise a 4-hydroxyl pyrylium compound is a φ-pyrone or pyran-4-one (4), to which group belong compounds such as maltol.

Chemical properties

2-Pyrones are known to react with alkynes in a Diels–Alder reaction to form arene compounds with expulsion of carbon dioxide, for example:[10]

Polycyclic pyrylium ions

Chromenylium ion

One bicyclic pyrylium ion is called benzopyrylium ion (IUPAC: chromenylium ion) (Formula: C
9H
7O+
, molar mass: 131.15 g/mol, exact mass: 131.04968983). It can be seen as a charged derivative of 2H-1-benzopyran (IUPAC: 2H-chromene) (C
9H
8O), or a (charged) substituted heterocyclic derivative of naphthalene (C
10H
8).

Flavylium ion

In biology, the 2-phenylbenzopyrylium (2-phenylchromenylium) ion is referred to as flavylium. A class of flavylium-derived compounds are anthocyanidins and anthocyanins, pigments that are responsible for the colors of many flowers.

Naphthoxanthenium cation

Higher polycyclic derivatives of pyrylium also exist. One good example is naphthoxanthenium. This dye is highly stable, aromatic, and planar. It absorbs in the UV and blue region and presents exceptional photophysical properties. It can be synthesized by chemical or photochemical reactions.[11]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Gilchrist, T. L. Heterocyclic Chemistry. ISBN 0-582-27843-0.
  2. ↑ Balaban, A. T.; Schroth, W.; Fischer, G. (1969). Katritzky, A. R.; Boulton, A. J., eds. "Pyrylium Salts. I. Synthesis". Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry. New York: Academic Press. 10: 241–326. doi:10.1016/S0065-2725(08)60499-7.
  3. ↑ Balaban, A. T.; Dinculescu, A.; Dorofeenko, G. N.; Fischer, G. W.; Koblik, A. V.; Mezheritskii, V. V.; Schroth, W. (1982). Katritzky, A. R., ed. Pyrylium Salts. Syntheses, Reactions and Physical Properties. Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry: Supplement. 2. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-020652-0.
  4. ↑ Balaban, A. T. (1979). "The Pyrylium Cation as a Synthon in Organic Chemistry". In Mitra, R. B.; Ayyangar, N. R.; Gogte, V. N.; Acheson, R. M.; Cromwell, N. New Trends in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Studies in Organic Chemistry. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 79–111. ISBN 978-0-444-41737-4.
  5. ↑ Balaban, A. T. (1987). "Pyrylium Salts as Useful Synthons". In Chizov, O. Organic Synthesis: Modern Trends. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 263–274. ISBN 0-632-02014-8.
  6. ↑ Balaban, T. S.; Balaban, A. T. (2003). "Pyrylium Salts". Hetarenes and Related Ring Systems, Six-membered Hetarenes with one Chalcogen. Science of Synthesis; Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. 14. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag. pp. 11–200. ISBN 978-3-13-118641-6.
  7. ↑ Balaban, A. T.; Boulton, A. J. (1973). "2,4,6-Trimethyl-Pyrylium Tetrafluoroborate" (PDF). Org. Synth.; Coll. Vol., 5, pp. 1112–1113
  8. ↑ Balaban, A. T.; Boulton, A. J. (1973). "2,4,6-Trimethyl-Pyrylium Trifluoromethanesulfonate" (PDF). Org. Synth.; Coll. Vol., 5, pp. 1114–1116
  9. ↑ Anderson, A. G.; Stang, P. J. (1981). "2,6-Di-tert-Butyl-4-Methylpyridine" (PDF). Org. Synth. 60: 34.; Coll. Vol., 7, p. 144
  10. ↑ Delaney, P. M.; Moore, J. E.; Harrity, J. P. A. (2006). "An Alkynylboronic Ester Cycloaddition Route to Functionalised Aromatic Boronic Esters". Chemical Communications. 2006 (31): 3323–3325. doi:10.1039/b607322k.
  11. ↑ Bucher, G.; Bresolí-Obach, R.; Brosa, C.; Flors, C.; Luis, J. L.; Grillo, T. A.; Nonell, S. (2014). "β-Phenyl quenching of 9-phenylphenalenones: a novel photocyclisation reaction with biological implications". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16: 18813–18820. doi:10.1039/C4CP02783C.
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