Phosphines, optically active

As with the phosphines optically active arsines were obtained by combination of reduction and alkylation 51 ° ... 

Organophosphorus compounds. Phosphorus-carbon bond fonnation takes place by the reaction of various phosphorus compounds containing a P—H bond with halides or tritlates. Alkylaryl- or alkenylalkylphosphinates are prepared from alkylphosphinate[638]. The optically active isopropyl alkenyl-methylphosphinate 778 is prepared from isopropyl methylphosphinate with retention[639]. The monoaryl and symmetrical and asymmetric diarylphosphi-nates 780, 781, and 782 are prepared by the reaction of the unstable methyl phosphinate 779 with different amounts of aryl iodides. Tnmethyl orthoformate is added to stabilize the methyl phosphinate[640]. 

Phosphine oxides are prepared similarly[644]. Selective monophosphiny-lation of 2,2 -bis[(lrifluoromethanesulfonyl)oxy]-l,1 -binaphthyl (784) with diphenylphosphine oxide using dppb or dppp as a ligand takes place to give optically active 2-(diarylphosphino)-1,1 -binaphthyl (785). No bis-substitution is observed[645,646]. 

Phosphorus is m the same group of the periodic table as nitrogen and tricoordi nate phosphorus compounds (phosphines) like amines are trigonal pyramidal Phos phmes however undergo pyramidal inversion much more slowly than amines and a number of optically active phosphines have been prepared... 

Although unsynunetrically substituted amines are chiral, the configuration is not stable because of rapid inversion at nitrogen. The activation energy for pyramidal inversion at phosphorus is much higher than at nitrogen, and many optically active phosphines have been prepared. The barrier to inversion is usually in the range of 30-3S kcal/mol so that enantiomerically pure phosphines are stable at room temperature but racemize by inversion at elevated tempeiatuies. Asymmetrically substituted tetracoordinate phosphorus compounds such as phosphonium salts and phosphine oxides are also chiral. Scheme 2.1 includes some examples of chiral phosphorus compounds. 

Synthesis of novel optically active cyclic phosphine ligands and their use in catalytic asymmetric reactions 98YGK511. 

Asymmetric versions of the cyclopropanation reaction of electron-deficient olefins using chirally modified Fischer carbene complexes, prepared by exchange of CO ligands with chiral bisphosphites [21a] or phosphines [21b], have been tested. However, the asymmetric inductions are rather modest [21a] or not quantified (only the observation that the cyclopropane is optically active is reported) [21b]. Much better facial selectivities are reached in the cyclopropanation of enantiopure alkenyl oxazolines with aryl- or alkyl-substituted alkoxy-carbene complexes of chromium [22] (Scheme 5). 

A number of excellent reports which deal with synthesis of optically active phosphine ligands are available to date, and have been referenced in this chapter. Therefore it is not the intention here to overlap with them, but rather to describe recent advances in the field. Thus, this chapter is intended to serve as a review to the preparation of some efficient P-chirogenic compounds which have been developed over the past ten years, by either resolution or asymmetric synthesis. Considerable progress has been made in the preparation and use of P-stereogenic compounds. Use of newer methods is stressed here however an at-... 

Thereafter, however, P-chirogenic phosphine ligands were the subject of less investigation since the synthesis of highly enantiomerically enriched P-stereo-genic phosphines often proves difficult. Another reluctance Hes in the fact that this class of phosphines, especially diaryl- and triarylphosphines, is conforma-tionally unstable and gradually racemize at high temperature [57,58]. In contrast, optically active trialkylphosphines are known to be optically stable even at considerably elevated temperature. 

Besides its protective function of the labile phosphine group, the BHj group activates the adjacent substituents such as methyl group or P-H bond to deprotonation with a strong base [78]. This methodology provides an efficient alternative to the difficult synthesis of a variety of optically active tertiary phosphine derivatives, as will be described in Sect. 3. 

P-Chirogenic diphosphine 19, which rhodium-chelate complex forms a seven-membered ring (rare case for P-stereogenic ligand), was also prepared in reasonable yield (68%) using the wide chemistry of secondary phosphine borane [37]. Deprotonation of the enantiomerically enriched ferf-butylmethylphos-phine-borane 88 (Scheme 15) followed by quenching with a,a -dichloro-o-xylene and recrystallization afforded optically active diphosphine-borane 89 (precursor of free phosphine 19). 

Scheme 17. Improved synthesis of optically active secondary phosphine-boranes...

The enantioselective 1,4-addition addition of organometaUic reagents to a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, the so-called Michael reaction, provides a powerful method for the synthesis of optically active compounds by carbon-carbon bond formation [129]. Therefore, symmetrical and unsymmetrical MiniPHOS phosphines were used for in situ preparation of copper-catalysts, and employed in an optimization study on Cu(I)-catalyzed Michael reactions of di-ethylzinc to a, -unsaturated ketones (Scheme 31) [29,30]. In most cases, complete conversion and good enantioselectivity were obtained and no 1,2-addition product was detected, showing complete regioselectivity. Of interest, the enantioselectivity observed using Cu(I) directly in place of Cu(II) allowed enhanced enantioselectivity, implying that the chiral environment of the Cu(I) complex produced by in situ reduction of Cu(II) may be less selective than the one with preformed Cu(I). 

Optically active (o-alkylsulfinylaryl)phosphonates, as well as their analogues phosphines, have been recently prepared (Scheme 42). Following the [1,3]-... 

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). 

The reduction of optically active methylphenyl-n-propylphosphine sulphide with lithium aluminium hydride proceeds with 100% retention, whereas the reaction of phosphine oxides with lithium aluminium hydride leads to racemization. ... 

Optically stable racemic phosphines have been oxidized with one half equivalents of optically active peracid. The remaining phosphine, oxidized with perbenzoic acid, showed low optical activity, but the phosphine oxides obtained in the asymmetric oxidation were optically inactive. ... 

Two contrasting conclusions have been reported in the reactions of lithium aluminium hydride in THF with phosphine oxides and phosphine sulphides respectively. The secondary oxide, phenyl-a-phenylethylphos-phine oxide (42), has been found to be racemized very rapidly by lithium aluminium hydride, and this observation casts some doubt on earlier reports of the preparation of optically active secondary oxides by reduction of menthyl phosphinates with this reagent. A similar study of the treatment of (/ )-(+ )-methyl-n-propylphenylphosphine sulphide (43) with lithium aluminium hydride has revealed no racemization. These results have been rationalized on the basis of the preferred site of attack of hydride on the complexed intermediate (44), which, in the case of phosphine oxides (X = O), is at phosphorus, and in the case of the sulphides (X = S), is at sulphur. Such behaviour is comparable to that observed during the reduction of phosphine oxides and sulphides with hexachlorodisilane. ... 

Isopropyl (/ )-( —)-methylphosphinate (134) has been prepared" in > 90% optical purity by Raney nickel desulphurization of optically pure O-isopropyl (5)-(-f-)-methyIphosphonothioate (135). The phosphonate (134) is rapidly racemized by base, but not by acid, unlike secondary phosphine oxides"" [although whether these have been prepared optically active now seems doubtful (see Chapter 4)]. The phosphinate (134) can be reconverted into 89% optically pure (5)-( + )-(135) by addition of sulphur in dioxan. As shown in the Scheme, a series of interconversions has been used to establish the configurations. 

Optically active O-isopropyl (5)-( — )-methylphosphinothioate (136) has been prepared for the first time by reaction of isopropy (/ )-(- )-methyl-phosphinate (137) with P4S10. The retention of configuration at phosphorus during this conversion was established by the formation of the two enantiomers, (138) and (139), of O-isopropyl 5-phenyl methylphosphonodithioate by separate routes of known stereochemistry. 

C. Reactions of Phosphoric and Phosphinic Acid Derivatives.—The optically active phosphinate ester (90) has been shown to react with benzyl Grignard reagents or lithium anilide with inversion of configuration. Oxidation of... 

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