Phosphines phosphonous acids

Compounds containing phosphorus can be both valuable synthetic intermediates and target compounds of solid-phase synthesis. Important synthetic intermediates include phosphonium salts and phosphorus ylides, which are key intermediates in carbonyl olefinations. Their preparation is discussed in Section 5.2.2.1. The preparation of oligonucleotides, these being the most important phosphorus-containing target molecules in solid-phase synthesis, is considered in Section 16.2. In this chapter, the preparation of phosphines, phosphonic acid derivatives, and phosphinic acid derivatives is discussed. 

All phosphoms oxides are obtained by direct oxidation of phosphoms, but only phosphoms(V) oxide is produced commercially. This is in part because of the stabiUty of phosphoms pentoxide and the tendency for the intermediate oxidation states to undergo disproportionation to mixtures. Besides the oxides mentioned above, other lower oxides of phosphoms can be formed but which are poorly understood. These are commonly termed lower oxides of phosphoms (LOOPs) and are mixtures of usually water-insoluble, yeUow-to-orange, and poorly characteri2ed polymers (58). LOOPs are often formed as a disproportionation by-product in a number of reactions, eg, in combustion of phosphoms with an inadequate air supply, in hydrolysis of a phosphoms trihahde with less than a stoichiometric amount of water, and in various reactions of phosphoms haUdes or phosphonic acid. LOOPs appear to have a backbone of phosphoms atoms having —OH, =0, and —H pendent groups and is often represented by an approximate formula, (P OH). LOOPs may either hydroly2e slowly, be pyrophoric, or pyroly2e rapidly and yield diphosphine-contaminated phosphine. LOOP can also decompose explosively in the presence of moisture and air near 150° C. 

Phosphorus(III) Oxide. Phosphoms(III) oxide [12440-00-5] the anhydride of phosphonic acid, is formed along with by-products such as phosphoms pentoxide and red phosphoms when phosphoms is burned with less than stoichiometric amounts of oxygen (62). Phosphoms(III) oxide is a poisonous, white, wax-like, crystalline material, which has a melting point of 23.8°C and a boiling point of 175.3°C. When added to hot water, phosphoms(III) oxide reacts violentiy and forms phosphine, phosphoric acid, and red phosphoms. Even in cold water, disproportionation maybe observed if the oxide is not well agitated, resulting in the formation of phosphoric acid and yellow or orange poorly defined polymeric lower oxides of phosphoms (LOOP). 

Additional phosphonic acid is derived from by-product streams. In the manufacture of acid chlorides from carboxyUc acids and PCl, phosphonic acid or pyrophosphonic acid is produced, frequentiy with copious quantities of yellow polymeric LOOP. Such mixtures slowly evolve phosphine, particularly on heating, and formerly were a disposal problem. However, purification of this cmde mixture affords commercial phosphonic acid. By-product acid is also derived from the precipitate of calcium salts in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. As a consequence of the treatments of the salt with sulfuric acid, carbonate is Hberated as CO2 and phosphonic acid goes into solution. 

The dimer of phosphonic acid, diphosphonic acid [36465-90-4] (pyrophosphoms acid), H4P2O3, is formed by the reaction of phosphoms trichloride and phosphonic acid in the ratio of 1 5. It is also formed by the thermal decomposition of phosphonic acid. Unlike the chemistry of phosphoric acid, thermal dehydration does not lead to polymers beyond the dimer extended dehydration leads to a disproportionation to condensed forms of phosphoric acid, such as [2466-09-3] and phosphine. 

Phosphinic Acid. Phosphinic acid (hypophosphoms acid) is a dehquescent crystalline soHd that melts at 26.5°C. It is a monobasic acid having a piC of 2.1 and the metal salts of which generally exhibit a high solubiUty. Phosphinic acid disproportionates upon heating above 133°C to generate phosphoric and phosphonic acids, hydrogen, and phosphine. 

Preparation and Properties of Organophosphines. AUphatic phosphines can be gases, volatile Hquids, or oils. Aromatic phosphines frequentiy are crystalline, although many are oils. Some physical properties are Hsted in Table 14. The most characteristic chemical properties of phosphines include their susceptabiUty to oxidation and their nucleophilicity. The most common derivatives of the phosphines include halophosphines, phosphine oxides, metal complexes of phosphines, and phosphonium salts. Phosphines are also raw materials in the preparation of derivatives, ie, derivatives of the isomers phosphinic acid, HP(OH)2, and phosphonous acid, H2P(=0)0H. 

Piimaiy phosphines are oxidized as intermediates in the syntheses of phosphonic acids and phosphonates. 

Phosphonic (phosphorous) acid, produced by hydrolysis of PCl, is for the most part consumed captively. It has also been offered as a flaked product and a 70 wt % solution by Rhc ne-Poulenc. Phosphonic acid is a by-product from manufacturing carboxyHc acid chlorides and alkaH peroxides. Additional by-product phosphonic acid is recovered in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. 

Most common is the preparation of alkyl phosphonic acid esters (phospho-nates) 4 (Z,Z = OR) from phosphorous acid esters (phosphites) 1 (Z,Z = OR). The preparation of phosphinic acid esters (Z = R, Z = OR) from phosphonous acid esters, as well as phosphine oxides (Z,Z = R) from phosphinous acid esters is also possible. 

Phosphinic acids are easily oxidized to their corresponding phosphonic acids ... 

The monosubstituted phosphinic acids, RHP(0)(0H), are easily oxidized yielding the corresponding phosphonic acids, according to Eq. (87) ... 

Phosphonous acid diesters undergo the Arbusov reaction with a wide variety of organic halides, giving esters of secondary phosphinic acids, as is demonstrated in Eq. (88) ... 

Other cyclizations at phosphorus have been observed when certain phosphinates were used in the acid-catalyzed Mannich reaction. As observed previously with various phosphonous acid derivatives, reaction of aliphatic phosphinic acids with primary amines favored the formation of 2 1 adducts (73). Thus, glycine and other a-amino acids reacted under the typical conditions with excess formaldehyde and alkyl phosphonous acids to give the bis-phosphinylmethyl adducts 125. 

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. 

Fluorinated phosphinic and phosphonic acid derivatives Perfluoro derivatives of alkyl phosphonic acid CnF2n+1-P(0)(0H)2 and alkyl phosphinic acid CnF2n+i(CmF2m+1)-P(0)0H (n = m or n m) shown with their general structural formulae in Fig. 2.11.29(1) and (II) were examined by negative ESI- and APCI-FIA-MS. These anionic surfactant compounds contained perfluoro alkyl chains [2,22,25]. By analogy with their behaviour in the TSI-FIA-MS(—) process [25], the phosphonic acid formed [M — H] ions at m/z 399 and 499... 

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