Lateral Deprotometallation‐Trapping Reactions on Methylated Pyridines, Quinolines and Quinoxalines Using Lithium Diethylamide

The functionalization of methylated azines and diazines has aroused the interest of chemists given the structural diversity that it affords. Hindered lithium dialkylamides have been used to deprotometallate these substrates chemoselectively. In contrast, it can be observed that, despite some promising work, lithium diethylamide has been used very little for this purpose. Our objective here is on the one hand to make an inventory of what reagents have been used to deprotometallate methylpyridines, ‐quinolines and ‐quinoxalines, and on the other hand to describe the results obtained by seeking to functionalize a series of substrates with lithium diethylamide (picolines, 2,4‐lutidine, methylquinolines and 2‐methylquinoxaline). Our efforts to take advantage of the use of an in‐situ trap (a zinc chloride chelate) in these reactions are also described.