Phosphines, alkylation with alkyl halides

A study of the reactions of (silylamino)phosphines (8) with organic halides includes an unusual N to C silyl migration (Scheme 2). Alkylation of amino-phosphines usually occurs on P a rare example of A-alkylation is found in the rigid system (9). ... 

A useful apphcation of phosphines for replacing a carbonyl function with a carbon—carbon double bond is the Wittig reaction (91). A tertiary phosphine, usually triphenylphosphine, treated with the appropriate alkyl halide which must include at least one a-hydrogen, yields the quaternary salt [1779A9-3] which is then dehydrohalogenated to form the Wittig reagent, methylenetriphenylphosphorane [19943-09-5] an yhde. 

Notable examples of general synthetic procedures in Volume 47 include the synthesis of aromatic aldehydes (from dichloro-methyl methyl ether), aliphatic aldehydes (from alkyl halides and trimethylamine oxide and by oxidation of alcohols using dimethyl sulfoxide, dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, and pyridinum trifluoro-acetate the latter method is particularly useful since the conditions are so mild), carbethoxycycloalkanones (from sodium hydride, diethyl carbonate, and the cycloalkanone), m-dialkylbenzenes (from the />-isomer by isomerization with hydrogen fluoride and boron trifluoride), and the deamination of amines (by conversion to the nitrosoamide and thermolysis to the ester). Other general methods are represented by the synthesis of 1 J-difluoroolefins (from sodium chlorodifluoroacetate, triphenyl phosphine, and an aldehyde or ketone), the nitration of aromatic rings (with ni-tronium tetrafluoroborate), the reductive methylation of aromatic nitro compounds (with formaldehyde and hydrogen), the synthesis of dialkyl ketones (from carboxylic acids and iron powder), and the preparation of 1-substituted cyclopropanols (from the condensation of a 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol derivative and ethyl-... 

Examples of the intermolecular C-P bond formation by means of radical phosphonation and phosphination have been achieved by reaction of aryl halides with trialkyl phosphites and chlorodiphenylphosphine, respectively, in the presence of (TMSlsSiH under standard radical conditions. The phosphonation reaction (Reaction 71) worked well either under UV irradiation at room temperature or in refluxing toluene. The radical phosphina-tion (Reaction 72) required pyridine in boiling benzene for 20 h. Phosphinated products were handled as phosphine sulfides. Scheme 15 shows the reaction mechanism for the phosphination procedure that involves in situ formation of tetraphenylbiphosphine. This approach has also been extended to the phosphination of alkyl halides and sequential radical cyclization/phosphination reaction. ... 

In the Wittig reaction an aldehyde or ketone is treated with a phosphorus ylid (also called a phosphorane) to give an alkene. Phosphorus ylids are usually prepared by treatment of a phosphonium salt with a base, and phosphonium salts are usually prepared from the phosphine and an alkyl halide (10-44) ... 

CLASSIFICATION OF REACTIONS BY TYPE OF COMPOUND SYNTHESIZED 16-47 Reaction of phosphines with Michael alkenes or with alkyl halides... 

It is possible to replace one isocyanide by triphenylphosphine, or to replace two isocyanides with diphos, giving phosphine analogues of these complexes. These species are not available from analogous reactions of phosphine-palladium(O) and (II) complexes. Reactions with active alkyl halides proceeds with oxidation nitric oxide also oxidizes these complexes. [Eqs. (31, 32)]. 

Wittig reactions are versatile and useful for preparing alkenes, under mild conditions, where the position of the double bond is known unambiguously. The reaction involves the facile formation of a phosphonium salt from an alkyl halide and a phosphine. In the presence of base this loses HX to form an ylide (Scheme 1.15). This highly polar ylide reacts with a carbonyl compound to give an alkene and a stoichiometric amount of a phosphine oxide, usually triphenylphosphine oxide. 

B. Reactions.—(/) Nucleophilic Attack at Phosphorus. A reinvestigation of the reaction between phosphorus trichloride and t-butylbenzene in the presence of aluminium chloride has shown that the product after hydrolysis is the substituted phosphinic acid (11), and not the expected phosphonic acid (12). Bis(A-alkylamino)phosphines have been reported to attack chlorodiphenyl phosphine with nitrogen, in the presence of a base, to give bis-(A-alkyl-A-diphenylphosphinoamino)phenylphosphines (13). In (13), the terminal phosphorus atoms are more reactive than the central one towards sulphur and towards alkyl halides. 

B. By Hydrolysis Reactions.—Details have appeared of the synthesis of dibenzophosphorin oxides (15) from 5-alkyldibenzophospholes, by reaction with methyl propiolate in the presence of water, and of confirmatory syntheses from phosphinic acid chlorides, as shown below. Evidence for the suggested mechanism of the ring-expansion reaction is presented. The hydrolysis of enamine phosphine oxides is an efficient, although somewhat indirect, method for the preparation of j8-ketoalkylphosphine oxides (16) [see Section 3(iii), for the preparation of enamine oxides]. Reasonable yields (48—66%) of trialkylphosphine oxides (17) have been obtained by the alkaline hydrolysis of the products from the pyrolysis at 220 °C of red phosphorus with alkyl halides, in the presence of iodine. 

A. Nucleophilic Reactions of the P=0 Group.—Tris(trifluoromethyl)-phosphine oxide (33) reacts with hexamethyldisiloxane to give a phos-phorane, whose n.m.r. spectrum at — 140 °C shows non-equivalent trifluoromethyl groups. Although this unusual reaction clearly involves nucleophilic attack of the phosphoryl oxygen on silicon at some stage of the reaction, a full study of the mechanism has not been published. Tertiary phosphine oxides can be converted cleanly into dichlorophos-phoranes (34) by treatment with two moles of phosphorus pentachloride. Alkylation of the sodium salt of tetraphenylmethylenediphosphine dioxide (35) with alkyl halides, in dimethyl sulphoxide, has been reported to... 

Aryl-alkenyl cross-coupling is straightforward. Simple alkylmagnesium reagents (Me, Et, CH2SiMe3, etc.) can be easily involved in Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling (27),139,140 while more complex alkyl halides—particularly branched ones prone to /3-hydride elimination—require Pd catalysts with bidentate phosphines, such as dppf, to achieve good selectivity (Section 9.6.3.4.7). 

These reactions may be considered to be a method of obtaining 1,3,2,5-dioxaborataphosphoniarinanes with different substituents at carbon and phosphorus atoms of the ring. Comparing the properties of cyclic oxyalkyl-phosphines and boryloxyalkylphosphines, it should be noted that in both cases the reaction with alkyl halides results in the formation of a tertiary phosphonium salt. The reaction with electrophilic reagents such as diphe-nylchlorophosphine and diphenylchloroborane proceeded quite differently [Eq. (100)]. 

Preparation of l,10-diphenyl-l,10-diphosphacyclooctadecane 1,10-dioxide — Reaction of an alkyl halide with a phosphinite ester generated in situ by reduction of a phosphinate... 

Rauhut, M.M. and Semsel, A.M., Reactions of elemental phosphorus with organometallic compounds and alkyl halides. The direct synthesis of tertiary phosphines and cyclotetraphosphines, J. Org. Chem., 28, 473, 1963. 

E Selective Wittig reagents. The reaction of 1 with lithium in THF provides LiDBP, which on reaction with an alkyl halide (2 equiv.) and NaNH2 in THF gives a salt-free ylide such as 2 or 3, formed by reaction with ethyl iodide or butyl iodide, respectively. These ylides react readily with aldehydes at —78°, but the intermediate oxaphosphetanes are unusually stable and require temperatures of 70-110° for conversion to the phosphine oxide and the alkene, which is obtained in E/Z ratios of 6-124 1. Highest (E)-selectivity is observed with a-branched aldehydes. 

The reaction of phosphines and alkyl halides presents an alternative way to generate phosphonium electrophiles (Scheme 3.8). In particular, the combination of a phosphine and carbon tetrabromide (the Appel reaction) allows for in situ formation of a phosphonium dibromide salt (48, X = Br). Treatment of a hemiacetal donor 1 with the phosphonium halide 48 initially provides the oxophosphonium intermediate 38 (X = Br). However, the oxophosphonium intermediate 38 can react with bromide ion to form the anomeric bromide intermediate 49 (X = Br) with concomitant generation of phosphine oxide. With the aid of bromide ion catalysis (i.e. reversible, catalytic formation of the more reactive P-anomeric bromide 50) [98], the nucleophile displaces the anomeric bromide to form the desired glycoside product 3. The hydrobromic add by-product is typically buffered by the presence of tetramethyl urea (TMU). 

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 reaction of halogenotriphenylphosphonium halides (triphenyl-phosphine dihalides) with alcohols is a useful method for the synthesis of alkyl halides (see Section II,2b p. 239). It has been found88 that (alkoxymethylene)dimethyliminium halides are formed in the reactions of these reagents with alcohols in N,N-dimethylformamide a possible mechanism is shown. Hydrolysis of the (alkoxymethylene)-dimethyliminium halide intermediate affords a formic ester, whereas... 

Preparation of alkenes Ketone reacts with phosphorus ylide to give alkene. By dividing a target molecule at the double bond, one can decide which of the two components should best come from the carbonyl, and which from the ylide. In general, the ylide should come from an unhindered alkyl halide since triphenyl phosphine is bulky. 

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