Pentafluorophenyl phosphorus compounds

Tervalent phosphorus acid esters, and triphenylphosphine, attack 2-bromothiazole (34) at bromine in alcoholic solvents to give thiazole and the oxidised phosphorus compounds. A similar attack of tris(diethylamino)phosphine on the bromine atom of bromopentafluorobenzene was used to prepare a series of main-group-four pentafluorophenyl derivatives, e.g. (35). A full paper has appeared on the fluoridation of trimethylsilyl phosphites, or phosphoramidites, with sulphury chloride fluoride. The mild conditions allowed the preparation of sensitive nucleoside derivatives, e.g. (36) and (37). 

Octaethyl and tris(pentafluorophenyl) corroles, known as oec and tpfc, respectively, are also efficient for the stabilization of P(VI) phosphorus [53,54]. The electron-rich oec reacts with PCI3 to form (oec)P=0 40 that can be further derived into dihydrido 41a, dimethyl 41b and diphenyl 41c compounds by reduction with LiAlH4 and reactions with methyl and phenyl Grignard reagents. 

The ability of fluoro-2 -phosphanes to transform silyl ethers into fluorides was first observed during a study of the reactions of phosphorus pentafluoride and its derivatives R PF5 (n = 1, 2, 3 R = hydrocarbon group) with trimethylsilyl ethers. Subsequently, this reaction was proposed as a new method for the preparation of C-F compounds from silyl ethers or silicic acid esters with fluoro-A -phosphanes. Pentafluorophenyl-substituted fluoro-A -phos-phanes were found to react similarily, Other workers found that tctrafluoro(phenyl)-A -phos-phane. which was chosen as the most convenient reagent with regard to reactivity and stability, gave considerable amounts of elimination products, especially with primary and cyclic alcohols. Good yields of fluorinated products are obtained when stable carbocations can be formed at the site of substitution, such as in tertiary alcohols, but 2-phcnylethanol. benzyl alcohol and diphcnylmethanol, on the other hand, give only poor yields of fluorinated products ethers and polymers are the main products. ... 

Fild, M. Glemser, O., "Phosphorus, Arsenic, and Antimony Pentafluorophenyl Compounds," Fluorine Chem. Rev. 1969,5,129. 

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