Phosphine oxide aminophosphinic acid

The hydrolysis of tervalent phosphorus acid derivatives with two P—C bonds leads to secondary phosphine oxides (50) and with one P—C bond to phosphonus acid derivatives (51). Chlorophosphines react rapidly with water, but aminophosphines, phosphinites and phosphonites often survive a short wash with aqueous NaHC03, an effective way to remove contaminating ammonium salts in the crude products. However, aminophosphines with small substituents, e.g. dimethylaminodimethylphosphine, aryl phosphinites and phosphonites and trimethylsilyl phosphinites and phosphonites are hydrolysed too quickly for such a treatment. The hydrolyses are catalysed by acids (the hydrolyses of phosphinites and phosphonites are also catalysed by OH ) and are much faster than hydrolyses of the corresponding phosphoryl compounds [up to a factor of 10 for acid-catalysed hydrolysis of (MeO)3P compared with (MeO)3P=0 ]. Dialkyl phosphonites are rapidly hydrolysed to the monoalkyl esters (51, X = OR) in weakly acidic water, whereas hydrolyses to phosphonous acids require reflux with strong acid or base, e.g. equation 131 Bis-(dialkylamino) phosphines may also be partially hydrolysed to phosphonous acid amides (51, X = NR2). Tervalent phosphorus acid derivatives with hydrogen sulphide give secondary phosphine sulphides or phosphonodithious acids, e.g. equation 156 . ... 

Thus the enantioselective oxidation of P-racemic tertiary phosphines and aminophosphines was successfully attained by treatment with tetrahalomethanes and an alcohol. Oxidation of iV-phosphorylated amino acids by these reactants proceeded diastereoselectively with formation of aminophosphinates 131 in 80-85% yields and with 50-98% de. The compounds were purified by crystallization and obtained in optically pure form (>99% de) (Scheme 40) [33, 39]. 

Ring opening of 116 with t-BuLi and subsequent acidolysis with / -toluene-sulfonic acid (PTSA) afforded the secondary phosphine oxide 117 in 40% overall yield but with an interesting 85% ee. This reaction is noteworthy because the reader will probably remember that the acidolysis (either with Me0H/H2S04 or with dry HCl) of t-Bu substituted aminophosphine boranes does not occur (see Section 4.3.2). 

An interesting synthetic approach to thietanes is the selective desulfurization of cyclic disulfides.The treatment of dithiolanes with a diethyl-aminophosphine results in a ring contraction to thietanes, (Eq. 19). This has been demonstrated with a-lipoic acid, a coenzyme with a dithiolane structure involved in the biological oxidation of pyruvic acid. The reaction is proposed to be initiated by the electrophilic attack of the phosphorus on the ring sulfur atom, resulting in the formation of an acyclic internal phosphonium salt, which by subsequent elimination of a phosphine sulfide, closes to the four-membered ring. °... 

Aminophosphines. The synthesis and use of aminophosphines as ligands have been reviewed. Raeemie ehlorophosphines of the type R R PCl have been shown to react stereoselectively with chiral amines (1-phenylethylamine or aminoacid esters) in the presence of triethylamine to give the diastereomerically enriched aminophosphines (137), which were isolated as diastereomerically pure crystalhne borane complexes. This approach has also been used in the synthesis of chiral t-butylphenylphosphine oxide, via the acid hydrolysis of an intermediate chiral aminophosphine. Among other new mon-oaminophosphines prepared by treatment of primary or secondary amines with ehlorophosphines in the presence of a base are the adenine derivatives (138), the phosphinoalkylaminophosphines (139), " the aminophosphine-phosphine... 

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