Phosphorane preparation

The trifluoromethylphosphoranes (CF3)2PMe3 and (CF3)3PMe2 have been obtained as stable, unreactive, white solids from the reactions of tetramethyl-lead with the corresponding chlorophosphoranes.23 Pseudorotation of (CF3)3PMe2 is slow on the n.m.r. time-scale at 100 °C, indicating a very considerable difference in apicophilicity between methyl and trifluoromethyl groups. Among other acyclic phosphoranes prepared are (23),24 (24),25 and (25).26... 

Introduction - The year has again seen a consolidation of knowledge in the area of hypervalent phosphorus chemistry with emphasis on the synthesis and properties of monocyclic and bicyclic phosphoranes. A considerable effort has been made to resolve the mechanism of the Mitsunobu Reaction (see Section 3) and the principles established by studies of pentaco-ordinate phosphorus compounds have again been extended to hypervalent compounds of other elements (e.g. As, Sb, and Si). A comprehensive review of the reactions of phosphorus acids with chlorine includes a number of examples of acyclic, monocyclic and bicyclic phosphoranes prepared by this route together with a useful catalogue of their 31p 5-values. 

A new synthesis of showdomycin (27), outlined in Scheme 3, utilizes the carboxylation of the ribofuranosyl ethyne (28). Showdomycin, labelled with carbon-14 at the /3-carbonyl group, has been prepared by Wittig condensation of the 3,6-anhydrohept-2-ulosonic acid derivative (29) with the phosphorane prepared from [l- " C]chloroacetamide (Scheme 4). ... 

In a similar way the use of the 2-methyl-3-isothiocyanato-4-thiocyanato-hept-3-ene (252) prepared from thiocyanogen and the oxoal-kylene phosphorane (251) yields the 2-anilino-4-propyl-5-isopropyl-thiazole (253) by condensation with aniline (Scheme 128). 

Ethyl (triphenylphosphoranylidene)acetate is available from FIuka AG and Trldom Chemical Inc. under the name (ethoxycarbonylmethylene)triphenyl-phosphorane and from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. under the name (carbethoxymethylene)triphenylphosphorane. The reagent may be prepared from triphenyl phosphine and ethyl bromoacetate by the following procedure. ... 

The acylation of Wittig reagents provides the most convenient means for the preparation of allenes substituted with various electron-withdrawing substituents. The preparation of o-allenic esters has been accomplished by the reaction of resonance-stabilized phosphoranes with isolable ketenes and ketene itself and with acid chlorides in the presence of a second equivalent of the phosphorane. The disadvantages of the first method are the necessity of preparing the ketene and the fact that the highly reactive mono-substituted ketenes evidently cannot be used. The second method fails when the a-carbon... 

Triphenylphosphine, in preparation of dichloromethylenetriphenyl-phosphorane, 46, 33 reaction with N,N-dimethylamino-benzaldehyde to yield /9,0-di-chloro-p-dimethylaminostyrene, 46,33... 

In the Wittig reaction an aldehyde or ketone is treated with a phosphorus ylid (also called a phosphorane) to give an alkene. Phosphorus ylids are usually prepared by treatment of a phosphonium salt with a base, and phosphonium salts are usually prepared from the phosphine and an alkyl halide (10-44) ... 

Following a similar protocol, novel hexacoordinated phosphate anions 19 to 22 bearing two different dioxo ligands could be simply prepared as their di-methylammonium salts from the reaction of tetrachlorocatechol derived phos-phoramidite 23 with a variety of symmetrical diones other than o-chloranil (a-diketones or orf/zo-quinones) and subsequent addition of tetrachlorocatechol to the corresponding phosphorane 24 (Scheme 3) [42]. 

Sugars having a difluoromethylene group were prepared by reaction of an aldehyde group in sugars with difluoromethylene tris(dimethyl-amino)phosphorane some of these were 554- 559. Similarly, (Z)- 560) and f ))-. tw-bromofluoroalkene 561 were prepared from l,2 3,4-di-0-iso-propylidene-a-D-gfl/ac/o-hexodialdo-l,5-pyranose (395) by treatment with Ph3P=CFBr. 

In a similar rearrangement dibenzophosphorin oxides (31) have been prepared from the reaction of dibenzophosph(ni)oles with methyl pro-piolate. Some ring expansion occurs even when R = benzyl, presumably because of the difficulty of putting benzyl in an apical position in the intermediate phosphorane. 

The meta- and para-isomers of the phosphoranes (FC6H4)3P(OEt)2 have been prepared from the corresponding phosphines and diethyl peroxide. From their F chemical shifts it was concluded that the groups... 

A. 2,2 -Biphenylylenephosphoranes.—The phosphoranes (14) have been prepared from dibiphenylylenephosphonium iodide (13) and the... 

The formation of the phosphoranes (23) in the preparation of the phosphonites (24) has been shownto be due to two processes firstly, the acid-catalysed disproportionation of the phosphonites to give (23) and cyclopolyphosphines and secondly, the remarkable base-catalysed reaction of the phosphonites with catechol to give (23) and hydrogen. 

A. Preparation.—Halogen displacement reactions have been used to prepare a number of new aminofluorophosphines. Aminodifluorophos-phine (1) has been prepared for the first time, from either bromodifluoro-phosphine or chlorodifluorophosphine, and ammonia. Studies of its n.m.r. spectrum have been made (see Chapter 11). The related NN-difluoroaminodifluorophosphine (2) has been prepared, from difluoroiodo-phosphine, and found to be explosive. Two syntheses of A-alkyl-amino-difluorophosphines have been reported, one of which was complicated by the subsequent formation of the phosphorane (3) and the bis-(A-alkylamino)fluorophosphine (4). 

A number of preparations of mixed halogenophosphoranes from tervalent phosphorus-fluorine compounds have been reported. For example, acyclic and cyclic fluorine compounds have been converted to phosphoranes, such as (36) and (37), by treatment with chlorine. Similar reactions leading to AA-dialkylaminodichlorodifluorophosphoranes (38) have been described and the stability of (38) to exchange processes commented upon. iVA-Dialkylaminotetraiodophosphoranes (39) have been prepared from AA-dialkylaminodichlorophosphines and lithium iodide, although no detailed physical evidence for the structure of these unusual compounds has yet been reported. The preparation of bis-(A-alkylamino)difluorophosphoranes (4) has been described above (see Section lA). 

B. Electrophilic Reactions.—Transesterification followed by rearrangement is a common route from simple phosphites to more complex phos-phonates. This has now been applied to the preparation of cyclic phos-phonates (85). Both phosphites (86) and phosphoranes (87) containing phosphorus-hydrogen bonds are obtained from the cyclic biphosphite (88) and butanol. ... 

The pentacoordinate intermediate is the analog of the tetrahedral intermediate, and stable phosphoranes are the analogs of ortho esters and related species in carbon chemistry. Ph3P(OPh)2 and P(OPh)5 were reported in 1959, and in 1958 a general synthesis of pentaalkoxy phosphoranes containing an unsaturated five-membered ring was reported. In 1964 a synthesis of pentaethoxyphosphorane was devised which led to the preparation of a number of saturated and unsaturated pentaalkoxy... 

Both neutral and anionic phosphorus compounds are good nucleophiles toward alkyl halides. We encountered examples of these reactions in Chapter 2 in connection with the preparation of the valuable phosphorane and phosphonate intermediates used for Wittig reactions. 

Acyclic phosphoranes. - A number of difluorotris(perfluoro-alkyl)phosphoranes (7) have been prepared by electrochemical fluor-ination of trialkylphosphine oxides (6) in anhydrous HF17. The phosphoranes are conveniently converted into the perfluoroalkyl-phosphine oxides (8) by reaction with hexamethyldisiloxane and the phosphoranes are regenerated by treatment of (8) with HF. 

The sulphur-bridged pentaoxyphosphorane (41) has been prepared by the route shown and its ground state structure studied by a combination of 1H, l9F, 31P and 15C n.m.r. spectroscopy35. The 19F n.m.r. data indicate that at -65°C (wnere three 19F triplets are observed) the phosphorane exists as structure (42) whereas at 26°C the spectrum (two 19F triplets, ratio 2 1) is consistent with conventional pseudorotation in a monocyclic system at 110°C the three trifluoroethoxy groups become equivalent. 

The first phosphorane (74) with a a"phosphorus-silicon bond has been prepared (albeit in low, 20%,yield) by the reaction of (72) with bis(trimethylsilyl)magnesium (73)99. It has an unusually high phosphorus chemical shift but no 2L ray data are, as yet, available. 

---