Phosphonium salts reduction

Tertiary phosphines, in the absence of special effects 2 ), have relatively high barriers 8) ca. 30-35 kcal/mol) to pyramidal inversion, and may therefore be prepared in otically stable form. Methods for synthesis of optically active phosphines include cathodic reduction or base-catalyzed hydrolysis 3° 31) of optically active phosphonium salts, reduction of optically active phosphine oxides with silane hydrides 32), and kinetic 3 0 or direct 33) resolution. The ready availability of optically pure phosphine oxides of known absolute configuration by the Grignard method (see Sect. 2.1) led to a study 3 ) of a convenient, general, and stereospecific method for their reduction, thus providing a combined methodology for preparation of phosphines of known chirality and of high enantiomeric purity. 

Reduction in compression set began to be achieved in the late 1960s when it was found that tropolene and phenanthroline not only accelerated amine cures but were also effective with certain bisnucleophiles such as resorcinol, hydroquinone and bis-phenol AF. In due course even better results were obtained with quaternary ammonium or phosphonium salts being used in conjunction with aromatic dihydroxy compounds. 

The reduction of optically active phosphonium salts by lithium aluminum hydride, which probably does involve 70 as an intermediate, affords racemic phosphines, presumably by pseudorotation in 70 before it decomposes 63). 

A simple cyclization was carried out to test the ability of chloro azidoalkene cyclization to generate quinolizidines. Reduction of 6-valerolactone to the corresponding lactol was followed by a Wittig reaction onto the carbonyl function employing an appropriate phosphonium salt, and the intermediate primary alcohol thus formed afforded the chloro... 

The olefin metathesis of 3-hydroxy-4-vinyl-l,2,5-thiadiazole 112 and a McMurry coupling reaction (Ti3+ under reductive conditions) of the aldehyde 114 were both unsuccessful <2004TL5441>. An alternative approach via a Wittig reaction was successful. With the use of the mild heterogenous oxidant 4-acetylamino-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine-l-oxoammonium perfluoroborate (Bobbitt s reagent), the alcohol 113 was converted into the aldehyde 114. The phosphonium salt 115 also obtained from the alcohol 113 was treated with the aldehyde 114 to give the symmetrical alkene 116 (Scheme 16) <2004TL5441>. 

Finally, Cristau and coworkers have reported on a quite efficient preparation of triphenylphosphine oxide (Figure 2.13) by a similar addition-elimination reaction of red phosphorus with iodobenzene in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst followed by oxidation of an intermediate tetraarylphosphonium salt.42 This approach holds the potential for the preparation of a variety of triarylphosphine oxides without proceeding through the normally used Grignard reagent. Of course, a variety of approaches is available for the efficient reduction of phosphine oxides and quaternary phosphonium salts to the parent phosphine, including the use of lithium aluminum hydride,43 meth-ylpolysiloxane,44 trichlorosilane,45 and hexachlorodisilane.46... 

The preparation of novel phase transfer catalysts and their application in solving synthetic problems are well documented(l). Compounds such as quaternary ammonium and phosphonium salts, phosphoramides, crown ethers, cryptands, and open-chain polyethers promote a variety of anionic reactions. These include alkylations(2), carbene reactions (3), ylide reactions(4), epoxidations(S), polymerizations(6), reductions(7), oxidations(8), eliminations(9), and displacement reactions(10) to name only a few. The unique activity of a particular catalyst rests in its ability to transport the ion across a phase boundary. This boundary is normally one which separates two immiscible liquids in a biphasic liquid-liquid reaction system. 

In a different approach [11] to access pure products, the use of strong oleum (65% SO3) for sulfonation of PPh3 resulted in quantitative formation of TPPTS oxide. This was converted to the ethyl suhbester through the reaction of an intermediate silver sulfonate salt (isolated) with iodoethane. Reduction with SiHCls in toluene/THF afforded tris(3-ethylsulfonatophenyl)phosphine which was finally converted to pure 3 with NaBr in wet acetone. In four steps the overall yield was 40% (for PPhs) which compares fairly with other procedures to obtain pure TPPTS. Since phosphine oxides are readily available from easily formed quaternary phosphonium salts this method potentially allows preparation of a variety of sulfonated phosphines (e.g. (CH3)P(C6H4-3-S03Na)2). 

The enantioselective synthesis of a somewhat more complex renin inhibitor starts with the reduction of the ester group in the chiral amino-ester (19-1) by means of diisobutyl aluminum hydride in the cold. The aldehyde product (19-2) is then reacted with prior isolation with the ylide from phosphonium salt (19-3) and a strong base... 

Phosphonium (and quasi-phosphonium) salts generate phosphines under electrolytic reduction (Table 7). Mercury, lead, platinum, tin, copper and aluminium172 cathodes were tried, mercury being the most often used173. Product dependence on cathode material, current, density and solvent has been observed174. In the case of unsymmetrical... 

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