Diazaphospholenium

Keywords 1,3,2-diazaphospholes 1,3,2-diazaphospholenes 1,3,2-diazaphosphinines 2,3-dihydro-l,3,2-diazaphosplinines diketiminto-phosphenium ions N-heterocyclic phosphines N-heterocyclc phosphenium ions 1,2,3-diazaphospholenium ions... 

Construction of isolated or benzannulated five-membered rings of NHPs can be accomplished by means of various condensation or cycloaddition reactions all of which involve interaction of an electrophilic Pj and a nucleophilic C2N2 building block. Salts containing 1,3,2-diazaphospholide anions or 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations can be directly accessed by some of these reactions but the products are in most cases neutral 1,3,2-diazaphospholes or NHP. A particularly concerted effort has been directed toward the synthesis of P-halogen-substituted NHP which are capable of undergoing further reactions via halide displacement or halide abstraction and serve thus as entry points for the preparation of a wide variety of neutral and cationic NHP derivatives. 1,3,2-Diazaphospholide anions are normally accessed by deprotonation of suitable iV-H-substituted precursors. 

Although 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations are usually prepared from neutral NHPs or 1,3,2-diazaphospholes via Lewis-acid induced substituent abstraction or A-alkylation, respectively (cf. Sect. 3.1.2), the group of Cowley was the first to describe a direct conversion of a-diimines into cationic heterocycles by means of a reaction that can be described as capture of a P(I) cation by diazabutadiene via [4+1] cycloaddition [31] (Scheme 4). The P(I) moiety is either generated by reduction of phosphorus trihalides with tin dichloride in the presence of the diimine [31] or, even more simply, by spontaneous disproportionation of phosphorus triiodide in the presence of the diimine [32], The reaction is of particular value as it provides a straightforward access to annulated heterocyclic ring systems. Thus, the tricyclic structure of 11 is readily assembled by addition of a P(I) moiety to an acenaphthene-diimine [31], and the pyrido-annulated cationic NHP 12 is generated by action of appropriate... 

Scheme 4 Direct synthesis of 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium ions via redox reactions (Ar=Dipp R=t-Bu, Dipp)... 

Transformations through 1,2-addition to a formal PN double bond within the delocalized rc-electron system have been reported for the benzo-l,3,2-diazaphospholes 5 which are readily produced by thermally induced depolymerization of tetramers 6 [13] (Scheme 2). The monomers react further with mono- or difunctional acyl chlorides to give 2-chloro-l,3,2-diazaphospholenes with exocyclic amide functionalities at one nitrogen atom [34], Similar reactions of 6 with methyl triflate were found to proceed even at room temperature to give l-methyl-3-alkyl-benzo-l,3,2-diazaphospholenium triflates [35, 36], The reported butyl halide elimination from NHP precursor 13 to generate 1,3,2-diazaphosphole 14 upon heating to 250°C and the subsequent amine addition to furnish 15 (Scheme 5) illustrates another example of the reversibility of addition-elimination reactions [37],... 

Reactions of P-halogen-NHPs with Lewis acids leading to halide abstraction, or metathetic replacement of the halide by a nucleofugic, noncoordinating anion form by far the most important routes to access phosphenium ions in general [51, 52] and also 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations in particular. As Lewis acid assisted P-X... 

Routine identification and analytical characterization of all types of NHPs was preferably carried out by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. Of particularly high diagnostic value are 31P NMR spectra where rather specific chemical shift ranges for heterocycles with different types of P-substituents can be observed. The largest chemical shifts occur for anionic and neutral 1,3,2-diazaphospholes (220-300 ppm) and 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations (210-200 ppm). Chemical shifts of P-halogen-l,3,2-diazaphospholenes vary over an overall range of 200-110 ppm and decrease in the order I (205-190 ppm)>Br (194-185 ppm two compounds... 

The observed planarity and bond length equalization in 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium cations likewise suggest that these compounds have substantial n-electron delocalization and possess possibly aromatic character. Several studies were undertaken to quantify the degree of n-delocalization by computational calculations using the interpretation of population analyses, ELF calculations, evaluation of magnetic criteria [nucleus independent chemical shift (NICS) values], and the... 

Quantitative assessment of the electrophilic character of various types of phosphenium ions has been attempted using computational studies on hydride and halide exchange reactions, and the results attribute to 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium ions a lower electrophilicity (and thus higher stability) than other types of phosphenium ions [20, 66], The gain in stability due to aromatic -delocalization is predicted to be somewhat larger than inductive stabilization resulting from exhaustive A-alkylation of the parent diaminophosphenium ion, [P(NH2)2]+. 

Ab initio calculations carried out on three 1,3,2-diazaphosphole derivatives, eg., 1, at the MP2/6-31 lG(d,p) level, gave rise to structural and energy data that are interpreted in context of its aromaticity. The 1,3,2-diazaphospholenium ion 2 also has a substantial degree of aromatic stabilisation energy (24.0 kcal mol ) in fact it is comparable to that of pyrrole. Cyclic delocalisation is supported by an analysis of computed charge distribution data, natural bond orbital data, bond... 

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