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Unexpected Reduction of Ethyl 3-phenylquinoxaline-2-carboxylate 1,4-di-N-oxide Derivatives by Amines
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1  Unidad en Investigación y Desarrollo de Medicamentos, Centro de Investigación en Farmacobiología Aplicada (CIFA), University of Navarra, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
2  Laboratório de Avaliação e Síntese de Substâncias Bioativas (LASSBio), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, PO Box 68024, RJ 21944-970, Brazil

Abstract: The unexpected tendency of amines and functionalized hydrazines to reduce the ethyl 3-phenylquinoxaline-2-carboxylate 1,4-di-N-oxide (1) to a quinoxaline (1c) and mono-oxide quinoxalines (1a and 1b) is described. The experimental conditions were standardized in the use of 2 equivalents of amine in ethanol under reflux for 2 hours, with the aim of studying the distinct reductive profile of the amines and the chemoselectivity of the process. With the exception of hydrazine hydrate, which reduced compound 1 to a 3- phenyl-2-quinoxalinecarbohydrazide derivative, the amines only acted as reducing agents.
Keywords: quinoxaline N-oxides, reduction, carboxylate, amines

 
 
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