Pyrazole is an organic compound with the formula C3H3N2H. It is a heterocycle characterized by a 5-membered ring of three carbon atoms and two adjacent nitrogen atoms. Pyrazole is a weak base, with pKb 11.5 (pKa of the conjugated acid 2.49 at 25 °C).[2] Pyrazoles are also a class of compounds that have the ring C3N2 with adjacent nitrogen atoms.[3] Notable drugs containing a pyrazole ring are celecoxib (Celebrex) and the anabolic steroid stanozolol.
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Preferred IUPAC name
1H-Pyrazole[1] | |||
Systematic IUPAC name
1,2-Diazacyclopenta-2,4-diene | |||
Other names
1,2-Diazole
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C3H4N2 | |||
Molar mass | 68.079 g·mol−1 | ||
Melting point | 66 to 70 °C (151 to 158 °F; 339 to 343 K) | ||
Boiling point | 186 to 188 °C (367 to 370 °F; 459 to 461 K) | ||
Basicity (pKb) | 11.5 | ||
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Pyrazoles are synthesized by the reaction of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes with hydrazine and subsequent dehydrogenation:[4]
Substituted pyrazoles are prepared by condensation of 1,3-diketones with hydrazine (Knorr-type reactions).[5] For example, acetylacetone and hydrazine gives 3,5-dimethylpyrazole:[6]
The term pyrazole was given to this class of compounds by German Chemist Ludwig Knorr in 1883.[7] In a classical method developed by German chemist Hans von Pechmann in 1898, pyrazole was synthesized from acetylene and diazomethane.[8]
Pyrazoles react with potassium borohydride to form a class of ligands known as scorpionate. Pyrazole itself reacts with potassium borohydride at high temperatures (~200 °C) to form a tridentate ligand known as Tp ligand:
3,5-Diphenyl-1H-pyrazole is produced when (E)-1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-one is reacted with hydrazine hydrate in the presence of elemental sulfur[9] or sodium persulfate,[10] or by using a hydrazone in which case an azine is produced as a by-product.[11]
In 1959, the first natural pyrazole, 1-pyrazolyl-alanine, was isolated from seeds of watermelons.[12][13]
In medicine, derivatives of pyrazole are widely used[14]
The pyrazole ring is found within a variety of pesticides as fungicides, insecticides and herbicides, including fenpyroximate, fipronil, tebufenpyrad and tolfenpyrad.[15] Pyrazole moieties are listed among the highly used ring systems for small molecule drugs by the US FDA[16]
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A. Schmidt; A. Dreger (2011). "Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Pyrazoles. Part 2. Reactions and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes of Pyrazole". Curr. Org. Chem. 15 (16): 2897–2970. doi:10.2174/138527211796378497.