Triazolopyridines. Part 8.1 Nucleophilic substitution reactions of 5-bromo[1,2,3]triazolo[5,1-a]isoquinoline and 7-bromo[1,2,3]-triazolo[1,5-a]pyridine

Abstract Nucleophilic substitution of 5-bromotriazoloisoquinoline (3) and of 7-bromo-3-methyltriazolopyridine (6) proceeds readily to give a range of 5-substituted triazoloisoquinolines (4a)-(4e), and of 7-substituted triazolopyridines (7a)-(7h) respectively. Triazoloisoquinolines have been converted into 1,3-disubstituted isoquinolines (11)-(13), (15), and (16), and triazolopyridines into 2,6-disubstituted pyridines (17)-(19). Of secondary amine nucleophiles, only piperidine reacted with 7-bromo-3-methyltriazolopyridine (6) to give the 7-substituted derivative (7g). A second product in this reaction was a 2,6-disubstituted pyridine (8); the similar compounds (20)-(24) were the only product…