Phosphorus phosphites

Alkyl Phosphites. The Interaction of Phosphorus Trichloride and Alcohols. 

Phosphorus trichloride reacts readily with three equivalents of an alcohol e.g, ethanol, in the presence of a tertiary amine such as pyridine, dimethyl-aniline, or diethylaniline, to form triethyl phosphite and hydrogen chloride, the latter being immediately neutralised by the tertiary amine. 

The following preparation of triethyl phosphite illustrates the interaction of phosphorus trichloride and ethanol in the presence of dimethylaniline the preparation of di-isopropyl hydrogen phosphite illustrates that of phosphorus trichloride and isopropanol in the absence of a tertiary amine. 

Common reducing agents are hydrogen in the presence of metallic or complex catalysts (e.g. Ni, Pd, Pt, Ru, Rh), hydrides (e.g. alanes, boranes, LIAIH, NaBHJ, reducing metals (e.g. Li, Na, Mg, Ca, Zn), and low-valent compounds of nitrogen (e.g. NjHj, NjHJ, phosphorus (e.g. triethyl phosphite, triphenyiphosphine), and sulfur (e.g. HO-CHj-SOjNa = SFS, sodium dithionite = Na S O. ... 

IS the only phosphorus isotope present at natural abundance and has a nuclear spin of The H NMR spectrum of tnmethyl phosphite (CH30)3P exhibits a doublet for the methyl protons with a splitting of 12 Hz... 

Organophosphorus Derivatives. Neopentyl glycol treated with pyridine and phosphorus trichloride in anhydrous dioxane yields the cycHc hydrogen phosphite, 5,5-dimethyl-l,3-dioxaphosphorinane 2-oxide (2) (32,33). Compounds of this type maybe useful as flameproofing plasticizers, stabilizers, synthetic lubricants, oil additives, pesticides, or intermediates for the preparation of other organophosphoms compounds (see Flame retardants Phosphorus compounds). 

Compounds of tnvalent phosphorus are generally oxidized to pentavalent phosphorus denvaPves bis(fluoroalkyl) and tns(fluoroalkyl) phosphites are oxi dized to the corresponding[106, lOI] (equation 92)... 

Hexafluoroacetone azine accepts nucleophiles (ROH, RSH, R NH) in positions 1 and 2 to yield hydrazones [27] Phosphites give open-chain products via a skeletal rearrangement [22] Radical addition reactions are also reported [22] Treatment of tnfluoropyruvates with tosylhydrazine and phosphorus oxychlo-ride-pyndme yields tnfluoromethyl-substituted diazo compounds [24] (equation 3)... 

Speziale and his co-workers have carried out comprehensive studies of the reactions of phosphorus compounds. It has been shown 108) that the reaction of N,N-dialkyl-a-trichloroacetamides (127) with phosphites and phosphines gives trichlorovinylamines (128). In general the trialkyl-phosphines gave somewhat higher yields (60 to 83%) and purer products... 

Ti -Cyclopentadienyl(triphenylphosphine)cobalt reacts with phosphites and forms complexes of 1-alkoxyphosphole oxides 251 (R = Me, Et, Ph) through a step involving (ri -cyclopentadienyl)(phosphite)cobalt (80JA4363). (ri -Cp)Co(PF3)2 reacts with hexafluorobut-2-yne and 252 is formed, which hydrolyzes into 253 (X = OH) [73JCS(CC)583 75JCS(D)197]. The five-member ring has the envelope conformation, in which the carbon atoms are coplanar, and the phosphorus atom deviates from this plane in the direction opposite to the cobalt atom. The heterocycle is a four-electron donor relative to the metal center. 

In addition there are certain other methods for the preparation such compounds. Upon heating of the thionocarbonate 2 with a trivalent phosphorus compound e.g. trimethyl phosphite, a -elimination reaction takes place to yield the olefin 3. A nucleophilic addition of the phosphorus to sulfur leads to the zwitterionic species 6, which is likely to react to the phosphorus ylide 7 via cyclization and subsequent desulfurization. An alternative pathway for the formation of 7 via a 2-carbena-l,3-dioxolane 8 has been formulated. From the ylide 7 the olefin 3 is formed stereospecifically by a concerted 1,3-dipolar cycloreversion (see 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition), together with the unstable phosphorus compound 9, which decomposes into carbon dioxide and R3P. The latter is finally obtained as R3PS ... 

Phosphine(s), chirality of, 314 Phosphite, DNA synthesis and, 1115 oxidation of, 1116 Phospholipid, 1066-1067 classification of, 1066 Phosphopantetheine, coenzyme A from. 817 structure of, 1127 Phosphoramidite, DNA synthesis and, 1115 Phosphoranc, 720 Phosphoric acid, pKa of, 51 Phosphoric acid anhydride, 1127 Phosphorus, hybridization of, 20 Phosphorus oxychloride, alcohol dehydration with. 620-622 Phosphorus tribromide, reaction with alcohols. 344. 618 Photochemical reaction, 1181 Photolithography, 505-506 resists for, 505-506 Photon, 419 energy- of. 420 Photosynthesis, 973-974 Phthalic acid, structure of, 753 Phthalimide, Gabriel amine synthesis and, 929... 

What is the oxidation number of phosphorus in sodium phosphite, Na3P03 In the dihydrogen phosphate ion ... 

Whereas the production of arylnitrenes by the deoxygenation of nitrosobenzenes or nitro-benzenes by trivalent phosphorus reagents and their subsequent intramolecular ring expansion to 3//-azepines are well-known processes, the corresponding intermolecular reactions to form 1//-azepines have been exploited only on rare occasions and appear to be of little preparative value. For example, the highly electrophilic pentafluorophenylnitrene, obtained by deoxygenation of pentafluoronitrosobenzene with triethyl phosphite in benzene solution, produced a low yield (2-10%) of l-(pentafluorophenyl)-l//-azepine, which was isolated as its [4 + 2] cycloadduct with ethenetetracarbonitrile.169 With anisole as the substrate l-(pentafluorophenyl)-l//-azepin-2(3//)-one (16% bp 128 —130 C/0.4 Torr) was obtained. 

The deoxygeneration of nitroarenes by trivalent phosphorus compounds in the presence of amines is a useful route to 3/f-azepin-2-amines (cf. compounds 32, Section 3.1.1.4.2.2.). Subsequently, it has been shown, by carrying out the reaction in strongly basic solution, that the process can be extended to the synthesis of 1H-. 3H- and 5//-2-benzazepines from nitronaph-thalenes 43 For example, 1-nitronaphthalenes 3 with dimethyl phosphite in the presence of sodium methoxide and a primary or secondary aliphatic amine, yield the dimethyl 5//-2-ben-zazepin-3-yl phosphonates 4 accompanied, in some cases, by the isomeric 3//-2-bcnzazepin-3-yl phosphonates 5. 

In the second synthesis,20 l-(2-acyloxyphenyl)-2-azidoethanones 3 cyclize to 1,3-benz-oxazepin-5-ols 4 in the presence of triethyl phosphite. As in the previous reaction, the intermediate phosphorus compounds are not isolated. 

These phosphorus-containing PAN derivatives are unstable under hydrolytic conditions, and the phosphoryl groups are easily split off under the action of boiling water. If, however, the modified PAN is treated with dimethyl phosphite solution in toluene in the presence of dimethylamine, a modified PAN, stable towards hydrolysis, is obtained. Its composition seems to be the following ... 

Although the phosphorous acid esters are often referred to as such, they are not true phosphites [72]. To be more precise, they exist almost exclusively in the phosphonate form of pentavalent phosphorus, as shown in structures (5) and (6) ... 

The Arbusov reaction is one of the best known methods for creating a carbon-phosphorus bond. In its simplest form (Michaelis-Arbusov) an alkyl halide reacts with a trialkyl phosphite to an alkanephosphonic acid diester as shown in Eq. (29) ... 

Diesters of phosphorous acid are in general neutral because the phosphorous acid exists mostly in the phosphonate form with one hydrogen directly attached to the phosphorus. But with alkali metals the H can be changed against the alkali and reactive intermediates formed. Such alkali metal derivatives of dialkyl phosphites react with alkyl halides to give dialkyl alkanephosphonates, according to Eqs. (45) and (46). 

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