Several 4-(substituted) -Hantzsch esters upon oxidation with bentonite supported metallic nitrates (Ag + , Fe +3 , Cu +2 , Co +2 ) under mild conditions, afforded the corresponding pyridines. As result of a comparative study, a synergism between the nitrate and the metallic ions with the TAFF support is suggested.
INTRODUCTION.Several 4-(substituted)-Hantzsch esters have been studied in great detail as cardiovascular drugs (1-3), also several Hantzsch pyridines are useful as antihypoxies (4,5), others exhibit acricidal, insecticidal, bactericidal and herbicidal activities (6).As it is well known, the Hantzsch synthesis is a widely used general procedure to obtain considerable structural modifications of pyridine; in this method the intermediate (1,4-dihydropyridine) is commonly aromatized by a set of different ways of oxidation. Several methods are available for the oxidative aromatization (7, 8); however most of them employ rather severe conditions.