Phosphorus 4-membered heterocycles

Three-membered heterocyclic compounds are available when one atom fragments like carbenes [108 or phosphorus compounds [109] add to C=0 ot C=N bonds (equation 26)... 

Coordination compounds with three-, four-, and six-member phosphorus-containing heterocycles 98PAC819. 

The diazaphosphane or aminoiminophosphane ligands with a NPN framework are another subclass of cyclophosphazenes. These compounds with both phosphorus in oxidation state (111) [104-110] and (V) [111-112] have been employed in the synthesis of four membered heterocycles and coordination chemistry with group 13 derivatives. Several complexes of trivalent phosphorus derivatives with both aluminum halide and alkyls are known as illustrated for 48 in Scheme 21 [113-119]. The structure determination of 48 confirms the formation of a four membered metallacycle [116, 117],... 

The third chapter Recent Developments in the Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Phosphines presents a survey on five- and six-membered phosphorus-nitrogen heterocyclic compounds whose rings combine a phosphazene or phosphazane unit... 

B. Phosphorus Pentasulfide 1. Synthesis of Five-Membered Heterocycles... 

As with five-membered heterocycles, phosphorus pentasulfide may replace a ring oxygen atom by sulfur, or it may effect replacement in an acyclic precursor and then bring about cyclization. Thus isochroman-l-one (99) is converted into thioisochroman-l-thione (100) under the same conditions a 3-arylisocoumarin( 101) produces a 3-ary 1-1-thioisocoumarin (102) only, with no replacement of the ring oxygen atom.122 A typical example of thiation, followed by cyclization, is the formation of 2-alkyl- or 2-aryl-3,l-benzo-thiazine-4-thiones (103) from /V-acylanthranilic acid esters (104) by treatment with phosphorus pentasulfide in boiling xylene.122... 

Depending on the relative amount of reagents, three types of products may be obtained in the reaction of hydroxymethylphosphines with amines acyclic aminomethylphosphines, 1,3,5-diazaphosphorinanes, and 1,5,3,7-diazadiphosphacyclooctanes. Indeed, the interaction of phosphorus-containing diols with 1 mol of amine gives eight-membered heterocycles. The initial assumption about the formation of 1,3-azaphosphetidines... 

Diathiadiphosphetane disulfides are probably the most studied and the most thermally and hydrolytically stable of all the phosphorus-chalcogen heterocycles. They contain a central four membered P2S2 ring and can be prepared from heating phosphorus pentasulfide with aromatic compounds. The most well-known of these is Lawesson s reagent (43), which is made from anisole and phosphorus pentasulfide,92 and is used extensively in organic synthesis procedures (see Section 5.4.1). Other dithiadiphosphetane disulfides of note are 44 and 45, formed from the reaction of phosphorus pentasulfide with ferrocene or 1 -bromonaphthalene respectively.93... 

Two types of phosphorus-containing five-membered heterocycles - both entirely new and not referred to in CHEC-11(1996) - have been synthesized during the past years. These syntheses are summarized in Scheme 35. 

Studies on the synthesis of [l,2,4,3]triazaphospholo[l,5-tf]pyridines have been reported by Schmidpeter et al. <1993JPR458, 1994PS381, 1995ZNB558>. The reaction pathway starts from 2-aminopyridine 147 which is first subjected to an Anamination reaction to give 1,2-diaminopyridinium iodide 148, and this compound is treated with tris-dimethylaminophosphine to yield the five-membered phosphorus-containing heterocycle 149. 

Vacuum thermolysis (160°C) of the hemiaminal 11 generates the azaphos-phetane 65 in 85% yield.32 This product clearly results from the intramolecular insertion of the transient (amino) (phosphino)carbene 2h into the C-H bond of a diisopropylamino group bonded to phosphorus. Note that the four-membered heterocycle 65 is formed exclusively in spite of the ratio of six methyl-CH bonds to one methine-CH bond, and that only one of the two possible diastereomers is detected. The same regio- and diastereo-selectivity have already been observed with the di(phosphino)carbene 2g,74 but is in marked contrast to the exclusive formation of five-membered rings... 

Elimination of trimethylchlorosilane and nitrogen occurs when the (phos-phino)(silyl)diazomethane la is reacted with para-toluenesulfinyl chloride at low temperature. The formation of the four-membered heterocycle 92, obtained in 87% yield, can be rationalized by a multiple-step mechanism involving the formation of the (phosphino)(sulfinyl)carbene 2v. The insertion of the (phosphoryl)(sulfenyl)carbene 91, resulting from a 1,3-oxygen shift from sulfur to phosphorus in 2v, into a carbon-hydrogen bond of a diisopropylamino group readily accounts for the formation of 92.84... 

In addition to the compounds listed above, a number of triazolium [36], thiazolium [37], and benzimidazolin-2-thione [32] derivatives as well as five-membered heterocycles with only one nitrogen atom [38, 39] or two phosphorus atoms [40] within the heterocycle, all of which are suitable for the generation of heterocyclic carbenes, have been described. 

Stable free carbenes derived from four- (13), six-, or seven-membered heterocycles 14 are also known. Carbenes of type 13 can possess a phosphorus [19] or a boron atom [69] within the heterocycle. These carbenes exhibit extreme values regarding their NMR spectroscopic ( carbene-c 285 and 312.6 ppm) and structural properties (angle N-Ccarbene-N 96.72(13) and 94.0(2)°). 

Electrochemical reduction of a,a -dibromoketones affords the unstable cyclo-propanone, which is in equlibrium with the dipolar intermediate 22. The cyclopro-panone hemiacetal is isolated in yields of 40 - 85 % from reaction in acetonitrile and methanol at -20 °C [99], The dipolar form can be trapped in a cycloaddition process with furan [100], Reaction with acetic acid leads to the a-acetoxy-ketone.[101]. Unstable three membered heterocyclic rings are intermediate in the reduction of sulphur and phosphorus linked dibromo compounds 23. In these reactions, the heteroatom is extruded leaving ci - and trans-stilbenes as the isolated products [102,103],... 

It has recently been found that oxetane reacts with phosphorus ylides in a manner similar to ethylene oxide. Trimethylmethylenephosphorane and oxetane give the six-membered heterocyclic compound 2,2,2-trimethyl-l-oxa-2-phospholane in 49% yield (equation 45). The cyclic ylides (46a,b) give 39-47% yields of the corresponding spirobicyclic oxaphos-phoranes. An NMR study showed these compounds to be fluxional as a result of turnstile pseudorotation (79CB501). 

One of the most dramatic recent events in the field of six-membered heterocyclic phosphorus compounds was the synthesis of stable crystalline 2,4,6-triphenyI-A3-phos-phorin by Markl (equation (20)). This was the first phosphorus analogue of a pyridine derivative <66AG(E)846,67AG(E)458,67AG(E)944) for a review see (B-82MI11700). 

The reaction of /3-enamino-A5-phosphanes with dimethyl acetylenedi-carboxylate gives l-aza-4A5-phosphinines (244) [89JCS(P1)2273]. Six-membered ring phosphorus-containing heterocycles were obtained by the reaction of enaminophosphines (245) with ethyl azidoformate (87TL2875). 

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