Trialkyl phosphite

In the absence of a tertiary amine, the initial reaction is again the formatfon of a trialkyl phosphite and hydrogen chloride. The latter now reacts rapidly with the trialkyl phosphite to give the alkyl chloride and the dialkyl hydrogen... 

Triethyl phosphite is a colourless mobile liquid, insoluble in water. Trialkyl phosphites are valuable intermediates in the preparation of many organophosphorus compounds they readily form dialkyl esters of alkylphosphonic acids by the Arbusov reaction (p. 311). 

When an alkyl halide is heated with a trialkyl phosphite, an ester of a phos-phonic acid is produced. This is known as the Arbusov Reaction ... 

If R = R, the reaction appears to be catalytic as a small quantity of R Cl will suffice to convert a considerable quantity of the trialkyl phosphite into the dialkyl alkylphosphonate (I). As little as o-i mol. of the alkyl iodide will suffice to isomerise the trialkyl phosphite. 

Other Plastics Uses. The plasticizer range alcohols have a number of other uses in plastics hexanol and 2-ethylhexanol are used as part of the catalyst system in the polymerization of acrylates, ethylene, and propylene (55) the peroxydicarbonate of 2-ethylhexanol is utilized as a polymerization initiator for vinyl chloride various trialkyl phosphites find usage as heat and light stabHizers for plastics organotin derivatives are used as heat stabHizers for PVC octanol improves the compatibHity of calcium carbonate filler in various plastics 2-ethylhexanol is used to make expanded polystyrene beads (56) and acrylate esters serve as pressure sensitive adhesives. 

Trialkyl phosphites participate ia Michaehs-Arbu2ov rearrangement with alkyl haUdes. Such esters can undergo auto-Arbu2ov rearrangement ia the absence of an alkyl haUde. 

The reaction proceeds through an intermediate phosphonium salt which can be isolated in some instances. The Michaehs-Arbusov reaction is especially useful for converting trialkyl phosphites, (RO) P, to alkylphosphonic esters, and to esters of phosphonocarboxyhc acids. 

Alkyl or aryl phosphonates, which contain a carbon—phosphoms bond, are comparatively more stable. They are of interest as antiscaling additives and corrosion inhibitors for cooling towers and heat exchangers (see Dispersants Water, industrial water treatment), surfactants (qv), sequestrants, and textile-treating agents. Trialkyl phosphites are usehil as esterification (qv) reagents. 

Monoesters of the phosphonic acids are Httle used in industry. The diesters, 0=PR(0R)2, of phosphonic acid are commonly prepared in industry from trialkyl phosphites in a MichaeUs-Arbusov reaction ... 

Trialkyl esters of phosphonic acid exist ia two structurally isomeric forms. The trialkylphosphites, P(OR)2, are isomers of the more stable phosphonates, 0=PR(0R)2, and the former may be rearranged to resemble the latter with catalytic quantities of alkylating agent. The dialkyl alkylphosphonates are used as flame retardants, plasticizers, and iatermediates. The MichaeUs-Arbusov reaction may be used for a variety of compound types, including mono- and diphosphites having aryl as weU as alkyl substituents (22). Triaryl phosphites do not readily undergo the MichaeUs-Arbusov reaction, although there are a few special cases. 

Phosphoms trichloride may also be used directly ia the production of trialkyl phosphites, dialkyl phosphonates, and dialkyl alkylphosphonates ... 

A convenient route to steroidal aziridines from the diaxial IN3-olefin adducts, e.g., (99), which undergo elimination with lithium aluminum hydride, was developed by Galle and Hassner. Upon treatment with trialkyl phosphite, these adducts are converted to A-phosphorylated aziridines which are reduced by lithium aluminum hydride to the free steroidal aziridine. 

Dialkyl sulfates aie esters of sulfuric acid, trialkyl phosphites ar e esters of phosphorous acid (H3PO3), and trialkyl phosphates are esters of phosphoric acid (H3PO4). 

Formation of esters of inorganic acids (Section 15.9) Alkyl nitrates, dialkyl sulfates, trialkyl phosphites, and trialkyl phosphates are examples of alkyl esters of inorganic acids. In some cases, these compounds are prepared by the direct reaction of an alcohol and the inorganic acid. 

Speziale and his co-workers have carried out comprehensive studies of the reactions of phosphorus compounds. It has been shown 108) that the reaction of N,N-dialkyl-a-trichloroacetamides (127) with phosphites and phosphines gives trichlorovinylamines (128). In general the trialkyl-phosphines gave somewhat higher yields (60 to 83%) and purer products... 

Trimethyl phosphite P(OMe)3 spontaneously iso-merizes to methyl dimethylphosphonate MePO-(OMe)2, whereas other trialkyl phosphites undergo the Michaelis-Arbusov reaction with alkyl halides via a phosphonium intermediate ... 

The reduction of benzofuroxans can lead to a variety of products, depending upon the conditions. Deoxygenation to benzofurazans (40) can be effected either directly, using trialkyl phosphites, -tributyl or triphenyl - phosphine, or indirectly, via o-quinone dioximes (41), using methanol and potassium hydroxide, or hydroxyl-amine and alkali. - - The dioximes may be isolated, but... 

Curious products isolated by Bailey and Evans from the reaction of benzotrisfuroxan with triphenyl phosphine have been examined by X-ray crystallography by Cameron and Prout. The structures (44-46) were determined.A molecular complex of trialkyl phosphate with benzotrisfurazan is formed using a trialkyl phosphite as reducing agent. 

The simple trialkyl phosphites (e.g., Table la, AO 13) decompose hydroperoxides stoichiometrically... 

Metal deactivator To form inactive protective films on metal surfaces which otherwise might catalyse oxidation and corrosion reactions Trialkyl and triaryl phosphites, organic dihydroxyphosphines, some active sulphur compounds, diamines in lubricating greases, mercaptobenzothiazole and phosphites... 

Rhodium, pentakis(trialkyl phosphite), 4, 929 Rhodium, tetrakis(acetato)di-antitumor properties, 4,936 ozonization, 4, 951... 

Triethyl phosphite can be obtained from Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., Aldrich Chemical Co., K and K Laboratories, and Matheson, Coleman and Bell. The presence of dialkyl hydrogen phosphite or trialkyl phosphate is not deleterious, but a correction for assay is required. Fractionation readily separates triethyl phosphite (b.p. 48-49°/ll mm.) from diethyl hydrogen phosphite (b.p. 72°/ll mm.) and triethyl phosphate (b.p. 90°/10 mm.). The presence of amines and amine hydrochlorides may seriously interfere with the alkylation, especially in the case of trimethyl phosphite (see Table I). The checkers redistilled triethyl phosphite obtained from Matheson, Coleman and Bell. 

Alkyl-l,2,3,4,5-pentachlorocyclopentadienes are a novel class of compounds.2 The alkylation of hexachlorocyclopentadiene by trialkyl phosphites is a synthetic procedure of considerable scope (Table I) and represents a new method of forming carbon-to-carbon bonds. The products, 5-alkylpentachlorocyclopentadi-... 

All the trialkyl phosphites required for the preparations listed are available from the suppliers mentioned in Note 1. 

Alkyl chlorides from alcohols and chlo-rovinylamines, 41, 23 5 - A1 k y 1 -1,2,3,4,5-p c n tachlorocy clopcn -tadienes from hexachlorocydo-pentadiene and trialkyl phosphites, 43, 90 AlleNE, 43,12... 

The Arbusov reaction is one of the best known methods for creating a carbon-phosphorus bond. In its simplest form (Michaelis-Arbusov) an alkyl halide reacts with a trialkyl phosphite to an alkanephosphonic acid diester as shown in Eq. (29) ... 

Using acyl chlorides of fatty acids in connection with trialkyl phosphite leads to surface-active a-hydroxyalkanephosphonic acids according to Eqs. (37)-(39). 

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. ... 

Sulfonic esters are most frequently prepared by treatment of the corresponding halides with alcohols in the presence of a base. The method is much used for the conversion of alcohols to tosylates, brosylates, and similar sulfonic esters. Both R and R may be alkyl or aryl. The base is often pyridine, which functions as a nucleophilic catalyst, as in the similar alcoholysis of carboxylic acyl halides (10-21). Primary alcohols react the most rapidly, and it is often possible to sulfonate selectively a primary OH group in a molecule that also contains secondary or tertiary OH groups. The reaction with sulfonamides has been much less frequently used and is limited to N,N-disubstituted sulfonamides that is, R" may not be hydrogen. However, within these limits it is a useful reaction. The nucleophile in this case is actually R 0 . However, R" may be hydrogen (as well as alkyl) if the nucleophile is a phenol, so that the product is RS020Ar. Acidic catalysts are used in this case. Sulfonic acids have been converted directly to sulfonates by treatment with triethyl or trimethyl orthoformate HC(OR)3, without catalyst or solvent and with a trialkyl phosphite P(OR)3. ... 

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