using KBr pellets. A Bruker SMART APEX2 CCD diffractometer was used for the single crystal X-ray crystallography.
Elemental analysis were performed at QTI laboratories, New Jersey.
General procedure for the preparation of 4-acylpyrazolone Schiff bases (1a-e). A mixture of 4-acylpyrazolone
[17] 2 (0.432 g, 2.0 mmol) and amine 3a-c (2.0 mmol) in 10 mL of ethanol was refluxed for 30 minutes. Upon cooling of the
solution 4-acylpyrazolone Schiff bases were separated as microcrystalline precipitates after one day at room temperature. The
crude products were recrystallized with ethanol to give pure 4-acylpyrazolone Schiff bases. Compounds 1d,e were prepared
by using excess (20 mmol) of the corresponding amines (3d,e) to prevent the formation of bis-Schiff base products and the
desired products were isolated after removal of excess amine under reduced pressure in the rotavapor.
1a 0.453 g, 74% yield. Found: C, 70.35; H, 6.03; N, 18.20%. Calc. for C18H18N4O: C, 70.57; H, 5.92; N, 18.29%. IR
(KBr) 653 cm–1, 695 cm–1, 752 cm–1, 831 cm–1, 1009 cm–1, 1127 cm–1, 1351 cm–1, 1485 cm–1, 1588 cm–1, 1641 cm–1,
2975 cm–1, 3060 cm–1, and 3406 cm–1.
1b 0.422 g, 82% yield. Found: C, 69.85; H, 7.54; N, 16.15%. Calc. for C15H19N3O: C, 70.01; H, 7.44; N, 16.33%. IR
(KBr) 652 cm–1, 694 cm–1, 760 cm–1, 839 cm–1, 1092 cm–1, 1352 cm–1, 1491 cm–1, 1535 cm–1, 1592 cm–1, 1637 cm–1,
2893 cm–1, and 2910 cm–1.
1c 0.368 g, 71% yield. Found: C, 64.62; H, 6.82; N, 16.00%. Calc. for C14H17N3O2: C, 64.85; H, 6.61; N, 16.20%.
IR (KBr) 652 cm–1, 696 cm–1, 761 cm–1, 839 cm–1, 1085 cm–1, 1353 cm–1, 1491 cm–1, 1535 cm–1, 1592 cm–1, 1630 cm–1,
2893 cm–1, 2919 cm–1, and 3452 cm–1.
1d 0.372 g, 72% yield. Found: C, 64.95; H, 7.11; N, 21.62 %. Calc. for C14H18N4O: C, 65.09; H, 7.02; N, 21.69%.
IR (KBr) 652 cm–1, 694 cm–1, 758 cm–1, 836 cm–1, 1349 cm–1, 1488 cm–1, 1535 cm–1, 1591 cm–1, 1635 cm–1, 2855 cm–1,
2920 cm–1, and 3392 cm–1.
1e 0.370 g, 68% yield. Found: C, 66.27; H, 7.55; N, 20.30 %. Calc. for C15H20N4O: C, 66.15; H, 7.40; N, 20.57%.
IR (KBr) 653 cm–1, 693 cm–1, 758 cm–1, 836 cm–1, 1350 cm–1, 1488 cm–1, 1535 cm–1, 1590 cm–1, 1635 cm–1, 2853 cm–1,
2926 cm–1, and 3389 cm–1.
1H and 13C NMR data of compounds 1a-e are shown in Tables 1 and 2.
Crystal structure determination of compound 1a. The single crystals suitable for X-ray crystallography were
obtained from the slow evaporation of a solution of 1a in ethanol at room temperature. Crystals of 1a C18H18N4O,
M = 306.36) are monoclinic, space group P21/n, at 100 K: a = 11.7945(19) Å, b = 6.7731(11) Å, c = 18.975(3) Å,
E = 97.507(3)q, V = 1502.8(4) Å3, Z = 4 (Zc = 1), dcalc = 1.354 gcm–3, P(MoKD) = 0.88 cm–1, F(000) = 648. Intensities of
13517 reflections were measured with a Bruker SMART APEX2 CCD diffractometer [O(MoKD) = 0.71072 Å, Z-scans,
2T < 58q] and 3609 independent reflections [Rint = 0.0759] were used in further refinement. The structure was solved by
direct method and refined by the full-matrix least-squares technique against F2 in the anisotropic-isotropic approximation.
The H atom of the –NH group was localized in the difference Fourier map and refined isotropically. The other H atoms were
placed in calculated positions and refined within riding model with fixed thermal parameters. For 1a the refinement
converged to wR2 = 0.1513 and GOOF = 1.027 for all independent reflections (R1 = 0.0650 was calculated against F for
2126 observed reflections with I > 2V(I)). Data reduction and further calculations were performed using the Bruker SAINT+
[18] and the SHELXTL NT [19] program packages. CCDC 704439 contains supplementary crystallographic data for this
paper.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Identification of the tautomeric structures of 1a-e. Solution state structure of the compound 1a in CDCl3 was
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identified as the 1a amine-one(I) form by using a combination of H, 13C, APT, COSY, HMQC, and HMBC NMR
spectroscopic methods. The 1H NMR spectrum of 1a displayed a two proton doublet (J = 6.0 Hz) at G 4.75 corresponding to
the CH2 group attached to the pyridine ring. The single proton broad peak at G 12.00 was assigned to the NH group and the
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