Perfluoroacyl halides, reaction

Perfluoroacylbenzenesulfonic acids, RfC0C6H4S03H, or their salts [137] have been prepared by acylating benzene with a perfluoroacyl halide in the presence of a Lewis acid and sulfonating the reaction product. Sodium (perfluorooc-tanoyl)benzenesulfonate was prepared by reacting perfluorooctanoyl chloride with benzene in the presence of AICI3 ... 

The title complexes are generally prepared by reaction of [Re(CO)s] (13) with organic halides (Scheme 11), affording a variety of alkyl, vinyl, acyl, aryl, and perflnoroalkyl and perfluoroacyl complexes. 

Although those Michaelis-Arbuzov reactions which involve acyl halides and phospho-rus(III) esters are yet a further route to phosphorus-carbon bond formation and will be discussed later in Section VI, the use of halogenated acyl halides has led to some unusual results which, conveniently, can be summarized here. The products obtained from reactions between trialkyl phosphites and perfluoroacyl chlorides contain both phosphonate and phosphate moieties and are structurally dependent on reaction temperature. The initial product (Scheme 4) is thought to be the ylide 66. In an ethereal solvent at low temperature, decomposition of the ylide yields [l-(dialkoxyphosphinoyl)oxy-l/f-perfluo-roalkyl]phosphonates (67) exclusively, but at -20 °C and above, and in the absence of a solvent, the products consist of (Z)-[l-(dialkoxyphosphinoyl)oxyperfluoroalkene]phos-phonates (68) . The treatment of the compounds 67 with Ida yields 68, and the action of BuLi-CuI on 68 results in loss of the phosphate moiety to give the esters 69 The structural isomers 70 of the compounds 68 have been obtained as illustrated in equation... 

The reaction between tris(trimethylsilyl) phosphite and a perfluoroacyl chloride proceeds without any apparent difficulty to give the predicted phosphonate diester 489 [R = Me3Si, R = CF3 or (CF3)2CH] but the use of longer chain polyfluorinated acyl halides or other heavily halogenated acyl chlorides leads to complications with such substrates, the initially formed acylphosphonate reacts with more phosphorus(III) ester to give the (Z)-enol phosphate 490 (Scheme 47). The halides, XCH2COX (X = Cl or Br) afford only the esters 491 (X = H). ... 

No stable compounds of the type R2Fe(CO)4 with iron-carbon a bonds have been isolated by the reaction between [Fe(CO)4] and alkyl halides such as methyl iodide. However, the perfluoroalkyl derivatives (Rf)2Fe (CO)4 (Rf = C2F5 and C3F7) have been obtained as air-stable very pale yellow crystals by the reaction between Na2[Fe(CO)4] prepared in tetra-hydrofuran and the perfluoroacy/ chlorides RfCOCl. The intermediate perfluoroacyl derivatives (RfCO)2Fe(CO)4 were not isolated, but instead were decarbonylated spontaneously in the boiling tetrahydrofuran 50). For reasons which are not clear at the present time the yields of the perfluoroalkyl compounds (Rf)2Fe(CO)4 in this reaction were only about 15%. Attempts to prepare (CF3)2Fe(CO)4 by this technique have been unsuccessful. A related compound is the extremely stable perfluorotetramethylene derivative C4FgFe(CO)4 (XXIX) 182) obtained from tetrafluoroethylene and iron pentacarbonyl. This fluorocarbon derivative was first erroneously formulated as a tricarbonyl derivative 183). 

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