Preparation of 4-substituted pyridines and quaternary pyridine salts useful therefor.

摘要

A process for preparing a 4-substitued pyridine product from a starting pyridine substituted in the 4-position by a leaving group susceptible to nucleophilic displacement when the starting pyridine is in quaternized form, comprises,
quaternizing the starting pyridine under effective acidic conditions with acrylamide, N-monoalkylacrylamide or N-dialkylacrylamide,subjecting the resultant, corresponding quaternized starting pyridine, to a nucleophilic displacement reactionwith a reagent which reacts with it to produce the corresponding quaternary salt of the 4-substituted pyridine product, anddequaternizing the latter under effective basic conditions to liberate the 4-substituted pyridine product.