Chiral phosphines phosphorus-palladium complexes

The chemistry of secondary phosphine oxides, R2P(H)0 and their phosphi-nous acid tautomers, R2POH, has continued to attract attention. The study of the phosphinous acid tautomers has been aided by the development of stereoselective procedures for direct conversion of secondary phosphine oxides to the phosphinous acid-boranes (83). Treatment of the secondary phosphine oxide with either a base-borane complex or boron trifluoride and sodium borohyd-ride provides the phosphinous acid-borane with predominant inversion of configuration at phosphorus. The phosphinous acid tautomers are usually trapped as ligands in metal complexes and further examples of this behaviour have been noted. Discrimination of enantiomeric forms of chiral phosphinous acids, Ph(R)OH, coordinated to a chiral rhodium complex, has been studied by NMR. °° Palladium complexes of di(t-butyl)phosphinous acid have found application as homogeneous catalysts.A lithium salt of the tellurophos-phinite Ph2PTeH has been prepared and structurally characterised. ... 

As has been the pattern in recent years, there has been considerable interest in the synthesis and characterisation of phosphide reagents derived from metals other than lithium, sodium, and potassium, and also in studies of the structure of metallophosphides in the solid state. A new route to P-chiral phosphine-boranes of high enantiopurity is afforded by treatment of the borane complexes of methyl(phenyl)phosphine with a copper(I) reagent, giving the copper-phosphido intermediate (83), which, on subsequent treatment with an iodoarene in the presence of a palladium(O) catalyst, gives the related chiral t-phosphine-borane (84), with retention of configuration at phosphorus. Organophosphido systems... 

Preparation. - Fluorophosphines have been obtained from the reactions of the related chlorophosphines with trimethyl tin fluoride. Phenyl(isopropyl)-fluorophosphine has been resolved via a chiral amine-palladium(II) complex, providing the first example of the resolution of a free fluorophosphine chiral at phosphorus. This compound racemises at 20 °C in benzene solution over six hours. The neat compound rapidly decomposes by redox disproportionation. The same approach has been used for the resolution of the related chloro-phosphine, but the optically active compound could not be liberated unchanged from the crystallised diastereoisomeric palladium complex. The dihalo-genophosphines... 

In 2007, Glueck s group reported a catalytic DKR process in which secondary phosphines were converted into the corresponding enantio-enriched tertiary phosphines through palladium-catalysed asymmetric hydrophosphination of aryliodides using secondary phosphines. The key intermediates were diaster-eomeric phosphide complexes with chiral ancillary ligands (L Pd PRR ). Their relative rates of P-inversion and phosphorus-carbon bond formation controlled the enantioselectivity of the prodnct formation. As shown in Scheme 2.63, the reaction allowed moderate enantioselectivities of up to 70% ee to be achieved. 

The asymmetric allylic phosphination of allylic acetate derivatives proceeded under mild conditions to afford chiral phosphines in good to excellent yields (Scheme 4.10) [26]. The catalyst system was comprised of commercially available materials including a common palladium source and JosiPhos as the chiral ligand. The enantioselectivity of the process was outstanding (up to 96% ee), and the conditions were quite mild (40 C). While only a single alkyl phosphine was screened, these results provided the proof of concept for the process, and extending the chemistry to more complex substrates and phosphorus... 

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