Studies of Coordinated Phosphorus Ligands

In our study of the fluorination of coordinated chlorophosphine ligands (23), we started out with tetrakis(trichlorophosphine)nickel-(0), which could previously be converted into tetrakis(trifluorophosphine)nickel-(0) by displacement of the coordinated phosphorus trichloride with excess phosphorus trifluoride in a sealed tube (32). The limitations of this method, requiring the use of phosphorus trifluoride, a low boiling gas, under pressure, and involving the mechanical separation of the fluorophosphine complex from phosphorus trichloride, are obvious, and the yield was low. A straightforward method for the synthesis of this interesting compound was found in the fluorination of the coordinated phosphorus trichloride with potassium fluorosulfinate ... 

In the absence of added phosphorus ligand, BD can take the place of L in intermediate 58. In that case, however, in addition to coupling Ci and Cg (or C3 and Cg), there is the possibility of coupling Ci with a terminal carbon of the coordinated butadiene. This leads to a new ftw-Tr-allyl complex 63, an intermediate in the cyclotrimerization of BD which can be isolated and is stable at low temperature in the absence of free BD or Recent C [ H] and NMR studies show that 63 exists as two isomers in solution, both with coordinated trans-oX fimc double bonds. The major one is assigned structure 64, where the double bond is parallel to the planes... 

Studies of hypervalent phosphorus compounds in biological phosphoryl transfer reactions include the preparation of novel anti-apicophilic penta-coordinated phosphoranes with frozen stereomutation using bulky biden-tate ligands. Kinetic studies have enabled the activation enthalpy of the stereomutation of an 0-equatorial phosphorane to its O-apical stereoisomer to be calculated. The involvement of hexacoordinated phosphoranes in phosphate transfer reactions has been clarified by theoretical calculations as well as in vitro studies. Applications of hexacoordinated compounds as catalysts have also been described. 

An n.m.r. study of the permutational isomerisations within a series of amidium fluorophosphates (133) has revealed an irregular mechanism with dissociation of the P-N and also the P-0 bonds of the bidentate ligands and the formation of five-coordinate intermediates (134)61. Reversible intramolecular migrations of pentaco-ordinate phosphorus in the N-C-N triad of amidines (e.g. 135, 136,... 

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