Phosphine boranes halides

Although more hydrolytically sensitive than the phosphine boranes, diorganochlorophosphines can be more accessible than diorganophosphines and are not pyrophoric. Thus, the reaction of a chlorophosphine with an aryl halide or aryl triflate in the presence of zinc as a reducing agent and (DPPE)NiCl2 as catalyst provides a convenient procedure for P—C coupling (Equation (49)).150 A related nickel-catalyzed process driven by electrochemical reduction has also been reported 151... 

Many phosphine-borane complexes Y3P BZ3 have been characterized. They include compouuds where Y = alkoxy, aUcyl, amino, halide, and hydride groups, and Z = alkyl, halide, and hydride. The stabilities of these complexes vary widely depending on the Lewis acidity and basicity of the boron and phosphorus moieties, respectively. The relative stabilities of Lewis acid-base complexes with BH3 are R3P > R3N > R3AS > R3Sb, but with BF3 the order is R3N > R3P > R3AS > RsSb. The stabihties of the borou halide complexes of phosphines follow the same order as the amine complexes BI3 > BBrs > BCI3 > BF3. 

Imamoto reported that Pd-catalyzed coupling of phosphine-borane with aryl halides is useful for preparation of asymmetric phosphines. Phosphines can be easily isolated from phosphine-boranes by exchange reaction with amines such as pyrrolidine and DABCO [10]. Lipshutz found that aryl nonaflates ( Nf = nonafluorobutanesulfonate) and triflates are good substrates for coupling with BHs-stabilized diaryIphosphines. Selective coupling with nonaflate without... 

Phosphorylation of At2PH-BH3 with aryl halides proceeds under mild conditions using Pd-Cu catalyst and P-chiral phosphine-boranes of high enantiopurity are prepared by this method. As an effective ligand, MePPh2 is used with Pd(OAc)2. The phosphine-borane 50 was prepared in 68 % yield by phosphorylation of optically active (Sp)-methylphenylphosphine-borane (47) via 48 with the iodide 49 in the presence of the Pd(OAc)2-MePPh2 catalyst and Cul as a cocatalyst at 0°C for 3 days. The reaction proceeded with retention of stereochemistry and the asymmetrically substituted phosphine 51 with 99% ee was obtained [15]. 

Nucleophilic attack at other atoms. The chemistry of phosphine-borane adducts has continued to generate interest. Simple borane adducts of primary vinyl-, ethynyl- and allenyl-phosphines have been prepared and studied by a range of spectroscopic and theoretical techniques. The same group has also shown that attachment of the BH3 unit to a variety of primary phosphines results in a substantial increase in the intrinsic acidity of the system in the gas-phase. Group III halide adducts of the type Bu 2PH EX3 (E = B, Al, Ga or In X = Cl or Br) are accessible from the reactions of the secondary phosphine with the trihalides at room temperature. The solid state structure and reactivity of these adducts was also reported. Treatment of l,8-bis(diphenylphosphino)naphthalene with the borane-dimethylsulfide complex in ether solvents affords a simple monoborane adduct of the diphosphine irrespective of the molar ratio of the... 

Phosphine itself will react directly with borane halides or diborane. Unlike phosphine, PH3, borane, BH3 is very difficult to isolate and it is usually formulated as the dimer. This dimer (9.11) dissociates and behaves as the monomer in most of its reactions. 

Phosphorus pentahalide complexes contain phosphonium cations and boron tetrahalide anions, for example, PCI4 BCI4 (Chapter 2.6). Phosphonium borohydrides, R4P BjH., can be prepared from phosphonium halides and sodium borohydride. On hydrolysis they give phosphine boranes. Salts with phosphonium cations and boron-containing anions are formed in other reactions (6.379) and (6.531). 

In a modified version of the Suzuki reaction arylboronates or boranes are utilized instead of arylboronic acid. Under the action of phosphine-free palladium catalysts NaBPh4 and tra(l-naphtyl)borane were found suitable phenyl-sources for arylation of haloaromatics in fully or partially aqueous solutions at 20-80 °C with good to excellent yields (Scheme 6.12) [32-34]. Aryl halides can be replaced by water-soluble diaryliodonium salts, At2IX (X = HSO4, BF4, CF3COO) in the presence of a base both Ar groups take part in the coupling [35]. 

An efficient resolntion of the racemic lithinm tert-bntylphosphine-borane complex 203 dnring deprotonation by n-BnLi/(—)-sparteine (11) and alkylation was reported by Liv-inghonse and Wolfe (eqnation 47) . One of the epimers 204/cp/-204 on warming to 0 °C crystallizes during a dynamic thermodynamic resolntion, and reaction with alkyl halides fnmishes the alkylation prodncts 205 with high ee values. Applying dihalides, essentially enantiomerically pure diphosphines snch as 206, besides few of the mcio-diastereomer, were obtained. Borane is removed by treatment with diethylamine to yield the free tertiary phosphines 207. 

The selective preparation of various chlorophosphines used as building blocks for the preparation of polyfunctional phosphines is achieved using dichloro (diethylamino)phosphine (Et2NPCl2). Alkylation of this phosphine with organozinc halides furnishes, after borane treatment, protected aminodi-organophosphines. These in turn can be converted to the corresponding... 

A complementary approach to the above method has recently been reported.35 Bis(diethylamino)chlorophosphine can be protected with borane, and then treated with lithium naphthalenide to generate 35, which reacts with organic electrophiles. These can be treated with HCI to yield the phosphonous halide borane compounds, RPCl2 BH3 (Scheme 15). These need not be isolated and can be treated directly with an organolithium and deprotected to yield a tertiary phosphine, R1R22P. 

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