Bidentate diphosphines

Coordination of an additional metallic fragment to a free donor atom of a bidentate diphosphine, dppm [172, 175], (PPh2)2C=CH2 (vinylidenebis(diphenylpho-... 

Even bidentate diphosphines do not act as catalyst poisons. For example, Pt(0) catalyzed smooth addition of ethyl acrylate to 1,2-diphosphinobenzene (Scheme 5-12, Eq. 1) no reaction took place in the absence of Pt(0), and radical initiators gave a mixture of products. 

On the other hand, the enantioselective 1,4-addition of carbanions such as enolates to linear enones is an interesting challenge, since relatively few efficient methods exist for these transformations. The Michael reaction of p-dicarbonyl compounds with a,p-unsaturated ketones can be catalysed by a number of transition-metal compounds. The asymmetric version of this reaction has been performed using chiral diol, diamine, and diphosphine ligands. In the past few years, bidentate and polydentate thioethers have begun to be considered as chiral ligands for this reaction. As an example, Christoffers et al. have developed the synthesis of several S/O-bidentate and S/O/S-tridentate thioether... 

Another class of chiral sulfur-containing ligands, diphosphine ligands based on a thiophene backbone, has been successfully developed by Sannicolo et For the first time, bis(diphenylphosphines) bidentate ligands incor-... 

For ruthenium, special precursors are required to synthesize defined bidentate diphosphine complexes. With Taniaphos for instance, it is possible to synthesize such complexes starting from unusual rathenium(ll) species. The complexes were characterized by NMR and single crystal analysis. 

The effect of the bite angle has been reviewed.243,244 The 103Rh chemical shifts of a series of hydridorhodiumbis(carbonyl)diphosphine compounds containing chelating bidentate P-ligands have been obtained by inverse HMQC detection sequences.245... 

Three generations of dendritic phosphines have been prepared from 3,5-diaminobenzoylglycine and 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-phenylalanine. The dendrimers were then attached to MBHA resin, treated with CH20 and Ph2PH, and converted to their Rh complexes. The polymer-supported complexes are excellent catalysts for the hydroformylation of alkenes, which could be recycled.283 The bidentate diphosphine A,A-bis-(P-(phosphabicyclo[3.3.1] nonan) methyl)aniline was prepared by phosphanomethylation of aniline. It forms a Rh-complex which is a highly regioselective catalyst in the hydroformylation of citronellene.284... 

B(3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)4-.512 Palladium complexes with a hemilabile terdentate carbene ligand, 1,3-bis(pyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, were active toward the catalytic polymerization of CO/norbornylene.513 Palladium complexes of cz s-bidentate C4-bridged diphosphines cis- and trans- 1,2-bis [(diphenylphosphino)methyl]cyclohexane, e fl o,e fl o-2,3-bis[(diphenylphosphino)methyl] norbornane,... 

Although diphosphine disulfides of formula R2P(S)P(S)R2 take up a trans conformation in the solid state (see Section 5.2.3), upon coordination to a metal centre they can rearrange to adopt a cis conformation, hence facilitating bidentate chelation of the metal (e.g., Equation 78).117 In addition, a cis-bridging mode has also been proposed for these ligands in bi-metallic complexes.117... 

Nonetheless, among bidentate diphosphines and with the notable exception of BINAP 23, there have been only sporadic examples of ligands whose rhodium complexes give enantioselectivities above 85% in hydroboration Knochel s dicyclohexylphosphine 34,80 Togni s Josiphos 41,85 and TADDOL derivatives 48, 50-52.90 Even... 

In the presence of the dehydroamino acid reactant, bidentate complexation as an enamide occurs. With a chiral diphosphine ligand, two diastereomeric forms of the enamide complex are observed in equilibrium that differ in the... 

A breakthrough in this area came when Dang and Kagan3 synthesized DIOP, a C2 chiral diphosphine obtained from tartaric acid (Fig. 6-1). DIOP-Rh(I) complex catalyzed the enantioselective hydrogenation of a-(acylamino)acrylic acids and esters to produce the corresponding amino acid derivatives with up to 80% ee. These achievements stimulated research on a variety of bidentate chiral diphosphines, and numerous chiral ligands bearing C2 symmetry have been developed as a result (see Fig. 6-1 for examples). 

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