1.4- diphosphine borane benzenes

After some optimisation, a family of 1,4-diphosphine borane benzenes was obtained after photochemical dechromination (Scheme 5.25 and Table 5.13). 

A route to non-racemic P-stereogenic vinylphosphine-boranes, e.g., (100), is afforded by the addition of methylphenylphosphine-borane with alkynes in the presence of a chiral diphosphine-palladium catalyst. The ehiral diphosphine-platinum complex-catalysed addition of diethylphosphine to the diene cis,cis-muco-nitrile has given the new diphosphine (101) as a 3 2 mixture of diastereoisomers. Further work has been reported on the use of cyclopentadienyliron complexes that act as metal templates for the intramolecular hydrophosphination of coordinated vinylphosphines with 1,2-diphosphino-alkanes and -benzenes, leading to 1,4,7-triphosphacyclononanes, e.g., (102), capable of further elaboration to form new cyclic phosphines. 

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