Secondary phosphines arylation

As mentioned in Sect. 3.1.1, secondary phosphine-boranes also react efficiently with aryl iodides in palladium-catalyzed substitution reactions (Pd(PPh3)4) [73]. In all cases the boranato functional group remains unchanged. 

In the framework of this concept a series of new mixed P/N ligands was prepared, employing the phosphorus-analogous Mannich reaction (Scheme 9). This transformation permits the substitution of primary or secondary amines by methylenephos-phine residues -CH2PRR (R, R = alkyl, aryl) through reaction with a secondary phosphine and formaldehyde (46). Based on the... 

Palladium catalyzed P-C ctoss coupling [58] between primary or secondary phosphines and appropriate aryl iodides made possible the preparation of several aminophenyl-phosphines with the general formula 70 and also the bisphosphine 71. 

The coupling of secondary phosphines with aryl iodides was also extended to pyridines. 3-Iodopyridine and diphenylphosphine were coupled to give 3-diphenylphosphino-pyridine in 60% yield (7.80.), The catalyst in this reaction consisted of copper(I) iodide and N,N -dimethylethylenediamine and caesium carbonate was used again as base.102... 

Triarylphosphine ligands are of utmost importance in transition-metal catalysis. Thus, direct palladium-catalysed high-speed generation of these ligands from secondary phosphines and aryl halide building blocks would be a suitable and convergent synthetic route with high flexibility. Stadler and Kappe have shown that this method for the... 

Primary phosphines are unpleasant and toxic reagents. They can be prepared from phosphonous halides, RPCI2, using LiAlILt. As is the case for secondary phosphines, easy access to pure phosphonous halides are required to make this route efficient. It has been found that compound 28 can be reduced to primary phosphine 29 using a mixture of UAIH4 and Me3SiCl (Scheme 13).31 This procedure appears useful, as phosphinates of type RP(0)(0Et)2 are often robust compounds that can be prepared in a number of ways. (e.g. Michaelis-Arbusov reaction, palladium-catalysed coupling of diethyl phosphite with aryl bromides, etc.)... 

The palladium-catalysed cross-coupling of aryl halides or vinyl halides with dialkyl phosphonates (31) to yield dialkyl arylphosphonates and dialkyl vinylphosphonates, respectively, was first reported by Hirao and co-workers 69 the halides used most frequently are bromides and the reaction is stereospecific with haloalkenes. Subsequently, analogous reactions of alkyl alkylphosphinates (32), alkyl arylphosphinates (32), alkyl phosphinates (33), and secondary phosphine oxides (34), replacing [P—H] bonds with [P—C] bonds to yield various phosphinates and tertiary phosphine oxides, have been developed (Figure 7.1). Alkyl phosphinates (33) may be mono- or diarylated as desired by the selection of appropriate conditions. Aiyl and vinyl triflates have also found limited... 

Miscellaneous Methods of Preparing Phosphines. Palladium-catalysed formation of phosphorus-carbon bonds continues to be developed as a useful route to organophosphines. The reactions of primary or secondary phosphines with aryl- or vinyl-halides in the presence of a palladium catalyst, usually palladium acetate or a zerovalent palladium-phosphine complex, have been used in the synthesis of steroidal phosphines, e.g., (128), the cationic diphosphine system... 

The use of aryl tosylates as electrophiles is attractive, since they can be synthesized from readily available phenols with less expensive reagents than those required for the preparation of the corresponding triflates. More importantly, tosylates are more stable towards hydrolysis than are triflates. However, this greater stability renders tosylates less reactive in transition metal-catalyzed coupling reactions. As a result, protocols for traditional cross-coupling reactions of these electrophiles were only recently developed [1], In contrast, catalytic direct arylations with aryl tosylates were not reported previously. However, a ruthenium complex derived from heteroatom substituted secondary phosphine oxide (HASPO) preligand 72 [81] allowed for direct arylations with both electron-deficient, as well... 

An alternative approach to ensure selective monoarylations of ketimines, including those without meta-substituents, was based on the development of a novel catalytic system. Significant progress was achieved with air-stable (heteroatom-substituted) secondary phosphine oxides (HA)SPOs, since these preligands gave rise to arylation reactions also with less reactive, yet inexpensive, aryl chlorides as electrophiles. Here, the sterically hindered derivative (l-Ad)2P(0)H (54) was found... 

Ruthenium-catalyzed direct arylations of the arene 58 with the secondary phosphine oxide (l-Ad)2P(0)H (54) as preligand allowed for the use of inexpensive aryl chlorides as electrophiles (Scheme 9.22) [55], Importantly, the protocol proved applicable to both electron-deficient and electron-rich aryl chlorides. 

Stelzer and co-workers reported a number of chiral water-soluble secondary phosphines [14], prepared by nucleophilic phosphination of primary phosphines with fluorinated aryl sulfonates in the superbasic medium DMSO/KOH. Further reaction with alkyl halides gives bidentate tertiary phosphines with P-chirality, but only racemic versions have been reported so far. Hanson et al. introduced so-called surface-active phosphines into asymmetric aqueous-phase catalysis. One of the main problems inherent to two-phase catalysis is the often very low miscibility of the substrates in the aqueous phase. Insertion of long alkyl chains between phosphorus atoms and phenyl groups in sulfonated phosphine ligands has been proven to increase reaction rates in the Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-octene [15], This concept was extended to a number of chiral ligands, i.e., the monoden-... 

Metal salts of primary and secondary phosphines cleave cyclic ethers to co-hydroxyalkylphosphines.310 In addition, lithium diphenylphosphide has been recommended for fission of alkyl aryl ethers.311... 

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