Phosphonothioic halide

As indicated in Section III. A. 1, the evidence for configurational inversion during the formation of phosphonothioic halides is based, at least partly, on the belief that the reverse hydrolysis also occurs with inversion. Mikotajczyk made a special study of the hydrolysis of optically active O-ethyl ethylphosphonochloridothioate. In 2 m KOH-dioxane at room temperature, the (-)-chloride is hydrolysed, with high yield, to the (5)-(-)-acid the acid was found to be at least 97.5% optically pure, which suggested that the hydrolysis was 97% stereospecific, the slight loss in stereospecificity being the result of racemization caused by the presence of chloride anions. Thus, the stepwise conversion of the acid into chloride and back into the acid produced acid of configuration identical with that with which the cycle started, probably by two inversion steps. 

The alkylation, with the more reactive of alkyl halides, of the sodium salts of monoes-terified phosphonothioic acids (equation 22) (see also Scheme 11) or of the disodium salts 107 results in preferential S-alkylation, and the same situation obtains for the salts of phosphinothioic acid " methylation can also be carried out with dimethyl sulphate. Alkylations may also be performed under phase-transfer conditions. From both practical and theoretical perspectives, the subject is more complex, since the course of alkylation reactions depends on the nature of the alkylating agent, on the polarity of solvent and whether this is protic or non-protic and on the concentrations of reactants a study of these features has been the subject of two reports In non-polar or weakly polar aprotic media, or in EtOH, alkylation occurs almost exclusively on sulphur, but in dipolar aprotic solvents, O-alkylation also takes place. The relative yields of sulphur- and oxygen-substituted derivatives, [Qs/Qol depends, for a given solvent, on the nature of substituents on phosphorus, i.e. essentially, whether the substrate is a thiophosphoric, thiophosphonic or thiophosphinic acid. With alkyl tosylates as alkylating agents at 0.02 m in hmpt, the alkylation of sodium 0,0-dialkyl or diphenyl phosphorothioates results in 100% overall conversions with [Qs/Qo] 5 the overall yields for sodium diphenyl- or diisopropyl-phosphinothioates are lower (50-100%) with [Qs/Qo] 1 ... 

Studies on the alkaline hydrolysis of various phosphonic and phosphinic esters have provided information on the electronic or steric effects of substituents and the effects of changes in reaction conditions amongst the substrates so extensively examined are the O-aryl esters of dimethylphosphinothioic acid (552) esters of diphenylphosphinic acid and O-aryfand S -aryf esters of diphenylphosphinothioic acid (553 Z, Y = O or S). Other studies have concentrated on aryl esters of diaryIphosphinic acids (554) , and the effects of the stepwise replacement of P-Me by P-Ph in esters of dimethyl-, methylphenyl- and diphenyl-phosphinic acids The esters 555 (R = EtO, R = Me or Ph, R = R = Ph X = SEt or hydrolyse under alkaline conditions faster than do the comparable 5 -(4-substituted-butyl) esters. Comparable steric and electronic influences on the hydrolyses of phosphonic and phosphinic fluorides phosphinic chlo-rides the phosphonothioic chlorides 556 and other phosphonic and phosphinic esters have been noted. Phosphonic and phosphinic halides are prone to undergo halo-gen-exchange reactions, a process which, in general, is faster for derivatives of phosphonic than for those of phosphonothioic and phosphonoselenoic acids, and to be particularly important for acid fluorides . ... 

Thiohalides of the type RP(S)X2 and R2P(S)X can be made by heating sulphur with the corresponding phosphonous or phosphinous halides. Phosphonothioic (thiophosphonic) halides can be obtained by the action of hydrogen sulphide on tetrachlorophosphoranes (9.425), or phosphonous halide-aluminium trichloride complex (Chapter 6), or P4SJ0 on the corresponding phosphonic dihalide (9.426), or by reaction (9.427) in which PSCI3 acts as a sulphur donor. Monophenyl phosphine and thionyl chloride produce phenyl phosphonothionic dichloride, which can also be obtained by thermal isomerisation (9.428). 

Phosphonothioic salts can be obtained from alkali hydroxide and phosphonothionic halides. 

Condensed phosphonothioates can be obtained by direct condensation of phosphonothioic esters with carbodiimide (9.526), or by the action of H2S on phosphonic ester halides (9.527). With phos-phonic dihalides, H2S produces cyclophosphonothioates (9.528). 

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