Phosphorus nucleophiles aromatic nucleophilic substitution

Kinetic studies have shown that the enolate and phosphorus nucleophiles all react at about the same rate. This suggests that the only step directly involving the nucleophile (step 2 of the propagation sequence) occurs at essentially the diffusion-controlled rate so that there is little selectivity among the individual nucleophiles. The synthetic potential of the reaction lies in the fact that other substituents which activate the halide to substitution are not required in this reaction, in contrast to aromatic nucleophilic substitution which proceeds by an addition-elimination mechanism (see Seetion 10.5). 

An alternative approach to selective functionalisation of 75 <2002DEP10115921> involves a first nucleophilic substitution step, followed by reduction of the 7-8 double bond and concomitant removal of the 8-chloride. The reduced species is N-acetylated, and the key intermediate 79 can be functionalized at either of G-2 or of G-6 (Scheme 42). Phosphorus(lll) reduction is then used to remove the remaining chlorine, and the second aromatic ring is reinstated by peroxide oxidation. 

Reactions of 5f/-2-methyl-l,2,4-triazepino[2,3- ]benzimidazol-4-one 71, prepared by reaction of 1,2-diaminobenz-imidazole 72 with acetoacetic ester 73, with different reagents was described, in the search of new heterocycles with biological activity <2002CHE598>. When lactam 71 was treated with aromatic aldehydes in boiling 1-BuOH with addition of piperidine 74, 577-3-arylidene-2-methyl-l,2,4-triazepino[2,3- ]benzimidazol-4-ones 75a-c were obtained (Scheme 7). Coupling lactam 71 with phenyldiazonium chloride 76 in dioxane afforded the 3-phenylazo-substituted tricycle 77. When 71 was treated with phosphorus pentasulfide 78 in boiling dioxane or pyridine, its thio analog 79 was obtained. The reaction proceeded most efficiently when lactam 71 was refluxed with twofold excess of 78 in dry dioxane. These thiones 79 react with ammonia and amines by nucleophilic substitution. When 79 was refluxed with ammonia, benzylamine, piperidine, or morpholine, the 4-amino-substituted tricycles 80a-d were obtained. All the described compounds were identified by NMR, mass spectrometry, and IR spectroscopy. 

The regioselective functionalization of nitrobenzene and benzonitrile derivatives has been performed via nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen by phosphorus-stabilized carbanions.41 Lithium phosphazenes have been found to be the most suitable nucleophiles for the substitution of hydrogen in nitrobenzene. This method represents a convenient alternative to the vicarious nucleophilic substitution for the synthesis of benzylic phosphorus derivatives using phosphorus-stabilized anions that do not bear a leaving group at the carbanionic centre. 

Pyridones are easy to prepare (see Chapter 44) and can be alkylated on oxygen as predicted by their structure. A more important reaction is the direct conversion to chloropyridines with POCI3. The reaction starts by attack of the oxygen atom at phosphorus to create a leaving group, followed by aromatic nucleophilic substitution. The overall effect is very similar to acyl chloride formation from a carboxylic acid. 

Perchloro-organic chemistry structure, spectroscopy and reaction pathways, 25, 267 Permutational isomerization of pentavalent phosphorus compounds, 9, 25 Phase-transfer catalysis by quaternary ammonium salts, 15, 267 Phosphate esters, mechanism and catalysis of nucleophilic substitution in, 25, 99 Phosphorus compounds, pentavalent, turnstile rearrangement and pseudorotation in permutational isomerization, 9, 25 Photochemistry of aryl halides and related compounds, 20, 191 Photochemistry of carbonium ions, 9, 129 Photosubstitution, nucleophilic aromatic, 11, 225... 

The reaction of aromatic halides with tertiary phosphines requires special reaction conditions, as they are not susceptible to the simple nucleophilic substitution reaction. Strong heating, generally in a closed pressure tube, with the tertiary phosphine in the presence of a nickel(II) halide salt allows substitution of the halogen by phosphorus, probably by way of an addition-elimination reaction. 

Nucleophilic substitutions at the phosphorus atom of the H-phosphonate diesters depend on the degree of occupation of its d-orbitals. The conjunction existing between the oxygen atom and the aromatic nucleus decreases the degree of interaction between the oxygen and phosphorus thus the degree of occupation of d-orbitals of the phosphorus atom in diphenyl H-phosphonate is lower than that in H-phosphonate dialkyl esters. 

Alcohols react with phosphorus halides to give the corresponding alkyl chloride aromatic rings activated by electron withdrawing groups are susceptible to aromatic nucleophilic substitution (S Ar). 

With the first nucleoside in place, we are ready to attach to it the second. For this purpose, the point of attachment, the 5 -OH, is deprotected with acid. Subsequent addition of a 3 -OH activated nucleoside effects coupling. The activating group is an unusual phosphoramidite [containing P(III)], which, as we shall see shortly, also serves as a masked phosphate [P(V)] for the final dinucleotide and is subject to nucleophilic substitution, not unlike PBrs (recall Sections 9-4 and 19-8). The displacement reaction is catalyzed and furnishes a phosphite derivative the catalyst is the, again unusual, aromatic heterocycle tetrazole, a tetrazacyclopentadiene related to pyrrole (Section 25-3) and imidazole (Section 26-1). Finally, the phosphorus is oxidized with iodine to the phosphate oxidation state. 

Simple reaction occurs with aryl halides only when the ring is sufficiently substituted with electron-withdrawing functions to allow attack by the nucleophilic phosphorus.53-56 Generally, reaction with aryl halides requires the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst or some other means of reaction initiation. These reactions will be considered in detail in Chapter 6 of this work. Interestingly, while reactions involving vinylic halides seem to correlate with those of aromatic halides (see Chapter 6), acetylenic halides undergo facile reaction with these phosphorus reagents.57 58... 

In spite of the general ambiphilicity of phosphonio-substituted phosphoHde derivatives, the aromaticity of the phosphoHde ring [10, 11] tends to reduce their electrophilicity while the intramolecular compensation of the negative charge by the phosphonio-substituents lowers at the same time their nucle-ophilicity [15, 16]. Bis-phosphonio-benzophospholides and -1,2,4-diaza-phospholides are therefore less reactive towards electrophiles and nucleophiles than other types of phosphorus containing multiple-bond systems and lack the notorious hydrolytic instabihty of many of these species [15, 16, 24]. Reactions are observed, however, with sufficiently strong electrophiles such as triflic acid or methyl triflate, or nucleophiles such as OH" or lithium alkyls, respectively. 

Phosphinine and its derivatives are clearly aromatic however, they are considerably more reactive than benzene. The most significant influence on the reactivity of these molecules is the presence of the lone pair on phosphorus, and two significant reactions are its complexation with a variety of metals, and nucleophilic attack to form (ultimately) A5-phosphorins. The 71-system can undergo [4+2] cycloadditions, under milder conditions than benzene. Electrophilic substitution reactions on carbon are considered to be impossible <2001CRV1229>. 

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