Phosphonium salts structure

The interaction of a alk-l-ene and phosphorus pentachloride to form a complex of the general composition RCH=CH2 2PCl5, now recognized as having the phosphonium salt structure 73, has been known for some time. Very many examples are now known of the decomposition of such complexes with SO2 (or in some cases with P40io ) under controlled conditions when the products are (2-chloroalkyl)phosphonic dichlorides (74) or derivatives thereof. The acids from but-l-ene and pent-l-ene hex-l-ene and hept-1-ene and oct-l-ene and dec-l-ene ° have all been reported. The stability of the initial adducts appears to very considerably, and dehydrochlorination may occur readily if the reaction is carried out with insufficient control. Vinyl and isopropenyl esters of carboxylic... 

The resulting phosphonium salts, 79 (n = 0,l), containing up to 2 phenylenevinylene moieties, were then coupled with terephthalic dialdeyde, 80 (m = 0), or 4,4 -stilbene dicarbaldehyde, 80 (m=l), to produce the target structures, terminally f-butylated OPVs (78) up to the heptamer (x=6). With results based on these model oligomers, the effective conjugation length of unsubstituted PPV 60... 

The crystal structure of the phosphonium salt (118) confirms that the compound is a diene and not a delocalized structure. 

The cage-like phosphonium salt (17) with phenyl-lithium in THF gave the phosphorane (18) which probably owes its great stability to the relief of strain in the ring structure on changing the bond angle at phosphorus to 90°. For the photolysis of (18) see Chapter 10, Section 1. 

Dielectric relaxation studies of phosphorylated polyethers from — 180° to 200 °C have been used to study their structures. The magnitude of the dielectric constants of high-phosphonic-acid-content polymers is much larger than predicted, which suggests a microphase-separated structure. Conductance studies on some aryl- and alkyl-phosphonium salts showed a higher conductance for the halides than for the nitrate. ... 

Carbon-13. The molecular structure of phosphino-thioformamides (27) and their chalcogenides have been studied in the solid and liquid states.57 The, 3C n.m.r. spectra of solid methylphenyl phosphonium salts have been studied using high power decoupling cross-polarisation and slow magic angle rotation. 

Reactions.—Alkaline Hydrolysis. The first total resolution of a heterocyclic phosphonium salt containing an asymmetric phosphorus atom (128) has been reported, providing ready access to optically active phospholan derivatives of value for studies of the stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacement at phosphorus.124 Alkaline hydrolysis of (128) proceeds with retention of configuration at phosphorus to form the oxide (129). Stereochemical studies in the phospholan series have also been facilitated by the X-ray investigation125 of an isomer of l-iodomethyl-l-phenyl-3-methylphospholanium iodide, which is shown to have the structure (130). 

This extremely air-sensitive compound, which is valence isoelectronic to an olefin, has been structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction. It has a short carbon-phosphorus double bond (1.62 A) the phosphorus and carbon atoms adopt a trigonal planar geometry with a dihedral angle of 60° (Fig. 3). This value is significantly larger than that reported for the most crowded olefin.61 Formally, this compound can be viewed as the product of a car-bene-carbenoid coupling between bis(trimethylsilyl)carbene and bis(diiso-propylamino)phosphenium triflate. Note that another route to methylene-phosphonium salt has been reported by Griitzmacher et al.62... 

A problem in these couplings is the identity of the end groups of the formed polymers. Pd-catalyzed dehalogenation and/or phosphonium salt formation are side reactions that are difficult to avoid. A concern for the structural integrity of the backbone is the formation of butadiyne defects. While there is no direct measure to determine the amount of butadiyne defects in PAEs, the numbers are estimated to range from 1 to 10% of all repeat units. 

Nickel (continued) polysulfide complex, 31 98 half chair conformation, 31 115 porphyrin complexes, 32 13 in proteins, 47 284-285 quadruply bridged dimers, 40 211-214 steric structures, 40 190-194 quaternary phosphonium salts of, 6 31-32 redox chemistry probes of structure, 32 243-245 steric and electronic requirements, 32 242-243... 

An interesting synthetic approach to thietanes is the selective desulfurization of cyclic disulfides.The treatment of dithiolanes with a diethyl-aminophosphine results in a ring contraction to thietanes, (Eq. 19). This has been demonstrated with a-lipoic acid, a coenzyme with a dithiolane structure involved in the biological oxidation of pyruvic acid. The reaction is proposed to be initiated by the electrophilic attack of the phosphorus on the ring sulfur atom, resulting in the formation of an acyclic internal phosphonium salt, which by subsequent elimination of a phosphine sulfide, closes to the four-membered ring. °... 

Because template polycondensation is not very well studied at present/ general mechanism is difficult to present. Two main types of polycondensation are well known in the case of conventional polycondensation. They are heteropolycondensation and homopolycondensation. In the heteropolycondensation two different monomers take part in the reaction (e.g., dicarboxylic acid and diamine). In the case of homopolycondensation, one type of monomer molecule is present in the reacting system (e.g., aminoacid). The results published on the template heteropolycondensation indicate that monomer (dicarboxylic acid) is incorporated into a structure of the matrix (prepared from N-phosphonium salt of poly-4-vinyl pyridine) and then the second monomer (diamine) can react with so activated molecules of the first monomer. The mechanism can be represented as in Figure 2.2. 

A recent halogen-free benzofuran that shares many structural features with its predecessor shows activity in controlling arrythmias. The synthesis starts with an unusual scheme for building the furan ring. Reaction of the benzyl bromide (2-1) with triphenylphosphine leads to phosphonium salt (2-2). Treatment of the salt with valeryl chloride in the presence of pyridine results in acylation on the now highly activated benzylic carbon (2-3). That product cyclizes to the benzofuran (2-4) on heating with expulsion of triphenylphosphine. Friedel-Crafts acylation of (2-4) with anisoyl chloride in the presence of stannic chloride proceeds on the... 

Structure and bonding in phosphonium salts has not been a controversial subject4,5,7-11199- Approximately regular tetrahedral geometry is expected from four nearly... 

TABLE 8. Structural data0 for some phosphonium salts... 

In a study which is relevant to the mechanism of hydrolysis of phosphonium salts, Glaser and Streitwieser297 studied the ions H4PO- and H3PFO- and their derivatives with Li +, NH4 and HF at the 6-31G level augmented by diffuse functions. They found that the structures of the anions are those of a hydride or fluoride ion solvated by or complexed with phosphine oxide, rather than phosphoranes297. A very important point is that earlier studies with diffuse functions yielded the pentacoordinated phosphoranes which they judged297 to be computational artifacts of the small basis set. 

In this chapter, specific paragraphs are not devoted to the zwitterionic structures, such as betaines, or to the applications of phosphonium salts in organic synthesis, but both topics are mentioned incidentally. 

FIGURE 2. Resonance structures in a,/l- and / ,y unsaturated phosphonium salts... 

In vinylic phosphonium salts, the jft-carbon is found to be substantially deshielded (A<5 = 22.4 ppm for the vinyltriphenylphosphonium bromide as compared with ethylene), although only a small inductive effect was expected. The extent of this was interpreted to be a consequence of pn-dn bonding between phosphorus and carbon39. This argument was used to identify structures when or 31PNMR spectra failed96. 

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