Cinnoline
{{short description|Chemical compound}}
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| PIN = Cinnoline{{cite book |author=International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |date=2014 |title=Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry: IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 |publisher=The Royal Society of Chemistry |pages=212 |doi=10.1039/9781849733069 |isbn=978-0-85404-182-4}}
| OtherNames = Benzopyridazine
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| InChI = 1/C8H6N2/c1-2-4-8-7(3-1)5-6-9-10-8/h1-6H
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| SMILES = n1nccc2ccccc12
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Cinnoline is an aromatic heterocyclic compound with the formula C8H6N2. It is isomeric with other naphthyridines including quinoxaline, phthalazine and quinazoline.
Properties
The free base can be obtained as an oil by treatment of the hydrochloride with base. It co-crystallizes with one molecule of ether as white silky needles, (m.p. 24–25 °C) upon cooling ethereal solutions. The free base melts at 39 °C. It has a taste resembling that of chloral hydrate and leaves a sharp irritation for some time.
Discovery and synthesis
The compound was first obtained in impure form by cyclization of the alkyne o-C6H4(N2Cl)C≡CCO2H in water to give 4-hydroxycinnoline-3-carboxylic acid. This material could be decarboxylated and the hydroxyl group reductively removed to give the parent heterocycle. This reaction is called the Richter cinnoline synthesis.{{cite journal | author = Victor von Richter | title = Über Cinnolinderivate | journal = Chemische Berichte | year = 1883 | volume = 16 | pages = 677–683 | doi=10.1002/cber.188301601154| author-link = Victor von Richter | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1425289 }}
Improved methods exist for its synthesis. It can be prepared by dehydrogenation of dihydrocinnoline with freshly precipitated mercuric oxide. It can be isolated as the hydrochloride.{{cite book |author1=Parrick, J. |author2=Shaw, C. J. G. |author3=Mehta, L. K. | chapter = Pyridazines, cinnolines, benzocinnolines and phthalazines | title = Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds | edition = 2nd | year = 2000 | volume = 4 | pages = 1–69}}
Cinnolines are cinnoline derivatives. A classic organic reaction for synthesizing cinnolines is the Widman–Stoermer synthesis,{{cite book | title = Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis |author1=Bradford P. Mundy |author2=Michael G. Ellerd |author3=Frank G. Jr. Favaloro | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-471-22854-0}} a ring-closing reaction of an α-vinyl- aniline with hydrochloric acid and sodium nitrite:
File:Widman-stoermer-reaction.png
A conceptually related reaction is the Bamberger triazine synthesis towards triazines.
Another cinnoline method is the Borsche cinnoline synthesis.
Safety
Cinnoline is toxic.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}