Phosphane/phosphine

An interesting transformation of complexes 98—99 is observed after exposure to air for 24 h in a CDCI3 solution an oxidized new species is formed under these conditions whose structure, based on analytical and spectroscopic data, was determined to be a chelated phosphane—phosphine oxide Rh(I) complexes (2011EJO5649). 

Name Ammonia (azane) Phosphane (phosphine) Arsane (arsine) Stibane (stibine) Bismuthane... 

Water. Phosphane (phosphine), PH3, a colorless, poisonous, odoriferous gas, may be made by adding water or dilute H30 to Ca3P2, Zn3P2 or AIP ... 

Note. Names based on phosphane, rather than phosphine or phosphorane, are used in this document, as recommended in [14]. 

Also covered by this review are those compounds bearing two or three phosphane units at the same N atom, that is those derived from (H2P)2NH (N-phosphino phosphinous amide in CAS nomenclature) and from (H2P)3N, NJsl-bis(phosphino) phosphinous amide, but not those bearing more than one amino... 

This chapter will also deal with compounds containing two or three phosphinous amide units, which, for simpUcity, will be named here as bis(amino-phosphanes) or tris(aminophosphanes) but not with phosphinous amides containing other additional organophosphorus functionaUties as, for instance, the so-called aminophosphine phosphinites (AMMP), which have been the subject of increasing attention in the Uterature dealing with catalytic asymmetric transformations and have been treated in other reviews [2,3]. 

Phosphinous amides bearing protons at the nitrogen atom, that here we will call NH phosphinous amides, such as 6, may be involved in prototropic equilibria with their PH phosphazene forms 7 [18,68-70] (Scheme 10). This kind of prototropic equilibria, paralleling that between phosphinous acids R2P-OH and phosphane oxides R2P(0)H [4], have been evidenced in some particular... 

Tetrasubstituted phosphinous amides of the type R2NPPh2 have been successfully arylated at phosphorus by the action of bromobenzene, in a process catalyzed by NiBr2, to give the aminophosphonium bromides [R2NPPh3] Br [109]. Other representative members of this class form phosphane-borane complexes [62], are aminated at phosphorus by chloramine to yield bis(amino)phos-phonium salts [110] and have been claimed to be protonated at phosphorus by ethereal tetrafluoroboric acid, as determined by NMR analysis [111]. 

Aqueous HCI solutions hydrolyze the P-N bond to give the amine hydrochloride and R2P-OH, which then disproportionates and is oxidized to diphenylphosphinic acid. A free phosphinous amide anion, with the countercation complexed by a crown ether, has been shown to be hydrolyzed and oxidized to the corresponding phosphinite with unusual ease [119]. Formic acid in toluene can be utilized for converting P,P-disubstituted phosphinous amides into their respective phosphane oxides [30]. 

In a similar way to the aminolysis of the P-N bond mentioned above (Scheme 9), alcoholysis of phosphinous amides leads to the alkyl esters of the respective phosphinous acids [30, 121]. This reaction occurs with inversion of the absolute configuration of the phosphorus atom, and has been used in a synthetic sequence leading to optically active tertiary phosphanes 22 [122] (Scheme 23). 

Finally, the N-propargyl-P,P-dialkyl or diaryl phosphinous amides rearrange at room temperature to the P-(4-azabutadienyl)phosphanes 28 [127] (Scheme 29). Interestingly, this rearrangement did not occur in other structurally similar P-N functionalities (R=OEt, OTr, NEt2). 

Following the general trend of this account, monodentate phosphinous amide ligands and bidentate AT-phosphino phosphinous amides or bis(amino-phosphanes) are included in the following discussion, but not other bidentate ligands bearing additional, different phosphorus functionalities, as for instance phosphinous amide-phosphane bidentate ligands. 

There do not appear to be any simple phosphines that bear a CH2F group. However, fluorine NMR spectra of phosphonates, phosphane oxides, and phosphonium compounds with CH2F and —CHF- bound to phosphorous have been reported. Examples are given in Scheme 3.26, including spectral data for the useful Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reagent, triethyl 2-fluoro-2-phosphonoacetate. 

Reviews covering the chemistry of group 2 metal complexes with phosphorus-stabilized carbanions,279 and of molecular clusters of magnesium dimetallated primary phosphanes, are available.2 u Magnesium phosphanes remain rare compounds.281 Lithiation of bromide 98 with BuLi in the presence of tmeda in pentane produces a lithium phosphine dimer subsequent treatment with MgCl2 in EtzO gives the phosphane 99 in 69% overall yield (Equation (19)). The centrosymmetric 99 has Mg-C = 2.217 A Mg-P = 2.77 A (av.).282... 

The phosphanes useful in this process are built from acyl derivatives of compounds such as those shown in Figure 17.22. During the Staudinger ligation process, once the azide reactant forms the aza-ylide with the phosphine, electrophilic attraction induces the nitrogen to attack the electron deficient carbonyl, which in turn causes release of the phosphonium group and forms the amide bond (Figure 17.23). 

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