Diphenylphosphinoyl group, activation

A further displacement of practical utility is that of halogen in phosphonic and phos-phinic chlorides by carboxylate ions (with silver or thallium salts, for example) to give mixed anhydrides, e.g. 581 and 582. Such anhydride formation provides a system particularly reactive at the carbonyl group towards nucleophiles, and thus preliminary activation of the carboxyl group by the diphenylphosphinoyl group becomes useful in amide or peptide formation ... 

The Hatakeyama group later reported the use of catalyst 103 for the asymmetric aza-MBH reactions of HFIPA with activated aromatic imines [96]. The aza-MBH reactions of four different diphenylphosphinoyl aryl imines (109) with HFIPA were promoted using 10 mol% 103 and afforded the corresponding a-methylene-/ -amino acid derivatives (110) in reasonable yields (42-97%) and moderate -values (54-73% Scheme 6.13). Aliphatic imines were not suitable substrates for the reaction due to imine lability. (For experimental details see Chapter 14.10.3). 

P ligand first by adding one C-NH bond in a reductive amination process, and then forming the second C=N bond and finally the third-generation complex 14 (Fig. 40). This new class of catalyst was effective in the rapid reduction of N-diphenylphosphinoyl-activated imines containing phosphinoyl groups in >99 % e.e. (Fig. 41) [126, 127]. 

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