In the course of experiments designed to elucidate the structure of reduced diphosphopyridine nucleotide (DPNH) (12), it became necessary to prepare the 2and 6-pyridones of iV-methylnicotinamidel by oxidation of the latter. Huff (5) has described the preparation of N’-methyl-6-pyridone-3-carboxylic acid by alkaline ferricyanide oxidation of either trigonelline or N’-methylnicotinamide. The acid...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND A series of some novel arylazo pyridone dyes was synthesized from the corresponding diazonium salt and 6-hydroxy-4-phenyl-3-cyano-2-pyridone using a classical reaction for the synthesis of the azo compounds. RESULTS The structure of the dyes was confirmed by UV-vis, FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopic techniques and elemental analysis. The solvatochromic behavior ...

The identification of nicotinamide-N1-oxide as a metabolite in the urine of a schizophrenic patient prompted a study of the relative metabolism of nicotinic acid and nicotinamide in mental patients and healthy volunteers. Metabolites quantified included N1-methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide, N1-methyl-4-pyridone-3-carboxamide, N1-methylnicotinamide, nicotinuric acid, and nicotinamide-N1-oxide. Mor...

A new Au(III)-catalyzed tandem amination-hydration reaction has been discovered, leading to the formation of α-(N-2-pyridonyl)ketones and heterocyclic analogues in good to excellent yields (14 examples, 48-90%). This reaction demonstrates the unusual use of a heterocyclic sp(2) nitrogen nucleophile in a gold-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cyclization. The tandem process allows rapid access to α-(N-2-pyri...

A new class of thermotropic lanthanidomesogens has been designed and prepared. They are based on 4-pyridone ligands that possess mesogenic cyanobiphenyl groups attached to the 4-pyridone unit via a flexible long alkyl spacer and show a very high thermal stability (decomposition temperatures near 300 °C). Depending on the alkyl length spacer, these complexes exhibit a SmA phase with transition t...

In the title compound, C(16)H(13)ClN(2)O, the quinoline ring system is essentially planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.021 (2) Å. The pyridone ring is oriented at a dihedral angle of 85.93 (6)° with respect to the quinoline ring system. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules along the b axis. Weak π-π stacking inter-actions [centroid-centroid distan...

The reaction 2-pyridone (PY) e 2-hydroxypyridine (HP) has been studied as a prototype of tautomerism of heteroaromatic compounds. Geometrical structures and relative energies of the two tautomers as welt as of the transition state (TS) for the intramolecular hydrogen transfer have been obtained using ab initio methods with different basis sets. Correlation energy is introduced through configura...