Preparation alkyl phosphine oxides

Details have appeared of the preparation of phosphine oxides from phosphonic or phosphinic esters using hydride sources and alkyl halides. The method is claimed to be convenient and give good yields, and is illustrated by the preparation of benzyldibutylphosphine oxide (5). 

A simple method of preparing tertiary phosphine oxides is to alkylate, by alkyl halides, the metalated secondary phosphine oxides which are intermediates 425,426... 

Preparation of Xi02. Using stable CLAs, Shi et al. [74] investigated the extraction and phase behaviors of tri-octyl phosphinic oxide (TOPO [or tri-alkyl phosphinic oxide TRPO])-kerosene/H2S04-Ti(IV) systems. They found that, under favorable hydrolysis conditions, a porous spherical Ti02 was obtained after the hydrolysis of Ti(IV) in the inner organic phase loaded with Ti(IV). 

Phosphine oxides having higher alkyl substituents are also prepared industrially using Grignard reagents. 

Most common is the preparation of alkyl phosphonic acid esters (phospho-nates) 4 (Z,Z = OR) from phosphorous acid esters (phosphites) 1 (Z,Z = OR). The preparation of phosphinic acid esters (Z = R, Z = OR) from phosphonous acid esters, as well as phosphine oxides (Z,Z = R) from phosphinous acid esters is also possible. 

Important and widely used variants of the Wittig reaction are based on carbanionic organophosphorus reagents, and are known as the Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, Wittig-Horner reaction or Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. As first reported by Horner, carbanionic phosphine oxides can be used today carbanions from alkyl phosphonates 13 are most often used. The latter are easily prepared by application of the Arbuzov reaction. The reactive carbanionic species—e.g. 14 —is generated by treatment of the appropriate phosphonate with base, e.g. with sodium hydride ... 

The most important of the tertiary phosphine complexes of platinum(IV) are Pt(QR3)2X4, generally prepared by halogen oxidation [174] of cis- or trans-Pt(QR3)2X2 (Q = P, As, R = alkyl Q = Sb, R = Me), since direct reaction of the platinum(IV) halides with the ligands leads to reduction. Once made, the platinum(IV) compounds are stable to reduction ... 

Wittig reactions are versatile and useful for preparing alkenes, under mild conditions, where the position of the double bond is known unambiguously. The reaction involves the facile formation of a phosphonium salt from an alkyl halide and a phosphine. In the presence of base this loses HX to form an ylide (Scheme 1.15). This highly polar ylide reacts with a carbonyl compound to give an alkene and a stoichiometric amount of a phosphine oxide, usually triphenylphosphine oxide. 

B. By Hydrolysis Reactions.—Details have appeared of the synthesis of dibenzophosphorin oxides (15) from 5-alkyldibenzophospholes, by reaction with methyl propiolate in the presence of water, and of confirmatory syntheses from phosphinic acid chlorides, as shown below. Evidence for the suggested mechanism of the ring-expansion reaction is presented. The hydrolysis of enamine phosphine oxides is an efficient, although somewhat indirect, method for the preparation of j8-ketoalkylphosphine oxides (16) [see Section 3(iii), for the preparation of enamine oxides]. Reasonable yields (48—66%) of trialkylphosphine oxides (17) have been obtained by the alkaline hydrolysis of the products from the pyrolysis at 220 °C of red phosphorus with alkyl halides, in the presence of iodine. 

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. 

Ferrocenylphosphines and their oxides (3) have been prepared by standard routes,7 and the properties of diferrocenylphosphine oxide (3 n = 2) reported.8 Derivatives of diphenyl(ferrocenylmethyl)phosphine oxide (4) have been prepared by a metallation-alkylation sequence,9 as shown for the oxide (5). 

A water-soluble phosphine derivative of diazepam allows for more convenient parenteral tranquilizer therapy and avoids some complications due to blood pressure lowering caused by the propylene glycol medium otherwise required for administration. Fosazepam (82) is prepared from benzodiazepine by sodium hydride-mediated alkylation with chioromethyldimethyl phosphine oxide. ... 

Among the preparative methods used for obtaining P-chiral phosphorus compounds, there are procedures involving the use of optically pure auxiliaries like (—)-menthol [40], (—)-ephedrin [41,42], or more recently, the kinetic resolution of 1-hydroxymethylalkylphenylphosphine oxides using Pseudomonas or Candida antarctica lipases [43], It has been found that some [(alkyl-substituted)arene] phosphinates and phosphine oxides can also be resolved efficiently by inclusion complexation with optically active 2,2 -dihydroxy-1, 1 -binaphthyl (17) [44],... 

Preparation of alkyldiphenylphosphine oxides. General procedure from phospho-nium salts. Triphenyl phosphine is heated under reflux with an excess of alkyl halide. The precipitated phosphonium salt is filtered off, washed well with ether, and then heated with 30 per cent w/w aqueous sodium hydroxide (c. 4 ml/g) until all the benzene has distilled out. The mixture is cooled and extracted with dichloromethane, and the extracts are dried (magnesium sulphate) and evaporated to dryness. In this way ethyldiphenylphosphine oxide is obtained from triphenyl phosphine (65.6 g, 0.25 mol) and iodoethane (42.9 g, 0.275 mol) in dry toluene (250 ml) to give first the phosphonium salt (102.4 g, 97.9%) after 3.5 hours, from which the phosphine oxide is obtained as needles (53.2 g, 92.5%), m.p. 123-124 °C (from ethyl acetate) p.m.r. 5 (CDC13, TMS) 1.9-13 (m, 10H, Ph2PO), 2.3 (m, 2H, CH2) and 1.2 (dt, 3H, JHm, = 7 Hz, JMeP = 17 Hz, Me). 

The tertiary phosphine oxides are most commonly prepared by simple oxidation of the parent phosphine with hydrogen peroxide,1 alkylation of a trihalophosphine oxide,2 or by oxidation of an appropriate phosphonium salt by moist silver(I) oxide.3 The simplest and quickest method is the peroxide oxidation of the parent phosphine. Inasmuch as appropriate syntheses... 

In the reaction of butyllithium or lithium di-isopropylaminc with the Mannich bases derived from hydrogen cyanide, phosphine oxides, and phosphorous esters, as well as from phenols, jhc metal atom is prevalently bound to the CH2—N moiety (313 in big. 119, route b). This intermediate is then allowed to react with halides, epoxides, and other alkylating reagents in order to link an alkyl group to methylene. Under proper conditions, aldehydes, ketones and enamines can be prepared by this method. 

Horner-Wittig modification Alternatively, phosphine oxide reacts with aldehydes in the presence of a base (sodium amide, sodium hydride or potassium t-butoxide) to give an alkene. The phosphine oxide can be prepared by the thermal decomposition of alkyl-triphenylphosphonium hydroxide. Deprotonation of phosphine oxide with a base followed by addition to aldehyde yields salt of (3-hydroxy phosphineoxide, which undergoes further syn-elimination of the anion Ph2P02. The lithium salt of (3-hydroxy phosphineoxide can be isolated, but Na and K salt of (3-hydroxy phosphine oxide undergoes in situ elimination to give alkene (Scheme 4.26). 

Alkylation of diastereomerically enriched menthyl arylphosphinates leads to menthyl alkylarylphosphinates, the alkylation occurring stereospecifically. Of only marginal interest in monoterpenoid chemistry, the method is valuable for the preparation of mixed alkyldiaryl- and aryldialkyl-phosphine oxides of known absolute configuration. " ... 

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