Phosphites, trialkyl

In the absence of a tertiary amine, the initial reaction is again the formatfon of a trialkyl phosphite and hydrogen chloride. The latter now reacts rapidly with the trialkyl phosphite to give the alkyl chloride and the dialkyl hydrogen... 

Triethyl phosphite is a colourless mobile liquid, insoluble in water. Trialkyl phosphites are valuable intermediates in the preparation of many organophosphorus compounds they readily form dialkyl esters of alkylphosphonic acids by the Arbusov reaction (p. 311). 

When an alkyl halide is heated with a trialkyl phosphite, an ester of a phos-phonic acid is produced. This is known as the Arbusov Reaction ... 

If R = R, the reaction appears to be catalytic as a small quantity of R Cl will suffice to convert a considerable quantity of the trialkyl phosphite into the dialkyl alkylphosphonate (I). As little as o-i mol. of the alkyl iodide will suffice to isomerise the trialkyl phosphite. 

Other Plastics Uses. The plasticizer range alcohols have a number of other uses in plastics hexanol and 2-ethylhexanol are used as part of the catalyst system in the polymerization of acrylates, ethylene, and propylene (55) the peroxydicarbonate of 2-ethylhexanol is utilized as a polymerization initiator for vinyl chloride various trialkyl phosphites find usage as heat and light stabHizers for plastics organotin derivatives are used as heat stabHizers for PVC octanol improves the compatibHity of calcium carbonate filler in various plastics 2-ethylhexanol is used to make expanded polystyrene beads (56) and acrylate esters serve as pressure sensitive adhesives. 

Trialkyl phosphites participate ia Michaehs-Arbu2ov rearrangement with alkyl haUdes. Such esters can undergo auto-Arbu2ov rearrangement ia the absence of an alkyl haUde. 

The reaction proceeds through an intermediate phosphonium salt which can be isolated in some instances. The Michaehs-Arbusov reaction is especially useful for converting trialkyl phosphites, (RO) P, to alkylphosphonic esters, and to esters of phosphonocarboxyhc acids. 

Alkyl or aryl phosphonates, which contain a carbon—phosphoms bond, are comparatively more stable. They are of interest as antiscaling additives and corrosion inhibitors for cooling towers and heat exchangers (see Dispersants Water, industrial water treatment), surfactants (qv), sequestrants, and textile-treating agents. Trialkyl phosphites are usehil as esterification (qv) reagents. 

Monoesters of the phosphonic acids are Httle used in industry. The diesters, 0=PR(0R)2, of phosphonic acid are commonly prepared in industry from trialkyl phosphites in a MichaeUs-Arbusov reaction ... 

Phosphoms trichloride may also be used directly ia the production of trialkyl phosphites, dialkyl phosphonates, and dialkyl alkylphosphonates ... 

A convenient route to steroidal aziridines from the diaxial IN3-olefin adducts, e.g., (99), which undergo elimination with lithium aluminum hydride, was developed by Galle and Hassner. Upon treatment with trialkyl phosphite, these adducts are converted to A-phosphorylated aziridines which are reduced by lithium aluminum hydride to the free steroidal aziridine. 

Dialkyl sulfates aie esters of sulfuric acid, trialkyl phosphites ar e esters of phosphorous acid (H3PO3), and trialkyl phosphates are esters of phosphoric acid (H3PO4). 

Formation of esters of inorganic acids (Section 15.9) Alkyl nitrates, dialkyl sulfates, trialkyl phosphites, and trialkyl phosphates are examples of alkyl esters of inorganic acids. In some cases, these compounds are prepared by the direct reaction of an alcohol and the inorganic acid. 

Trimethyl phosphite P(OMe)3 spontaneously iso-merizes to methyl dimethylphosphonate MePO-(OMe)2, whereas other trialkyl phosphites undergo the Michaelis-Arbusov reaction with alkyl halides via a phosphonium intermediate ... 

The reduction of benzofuroxans can lead to a variety of products, depending upon the conditions. Deoxygenation to benzofurazans (40) can be effected either directly, using trialkyl phosphites, -tributyl or triphenyl - phosphine, or indirectly, via o-quinone dioximes (41), using methanol and potassium hydroxide, or hydroxyl-amine and alkali. - - The dioximes may be isolated, but... 

Curious products isolated by Bailey and Evans from the reaction of benzotrisfuroxan with triphenyl phosphine have been examined by X-ray crystallography by Cameron and Prout. The structures (44-46) were determined.A molecular complex of trialkyl phosphate with benzotrisfurazan is formed using a trialkyl phosphite as reducing agent. 

The simple trialkyl phosphites (e.g., Table la, AO 13) decompose hydroperoxides stoichiometrically... 

Rhodium, pentakis(trialkyl phosphite), 4, 929 Rhodium, tetrakis(acetato)di-antitumor properties, 4,936 ozonization, 4, 951... 

Alkyl-l,2,3,4,5-pentachlorocyclopentadienes are a novel class of compounds.2 The alkylation of hexachlorocyclopentadiene by trialkyl phosphites is a synthetic procedure of considerable scope (Table I) and represents a new method of forming carbon-to-carbon bonds. The products, 5-alkylpentachlorocyclopentadi-... 

All the trialkyl phosphites required for the preparations listed are available from the suppliers mentioned in Note 1. 

Alkyl chlorides from alcohols and chlo-rovinylamines, 41, 23 5 - A1 k y 1 -1,2,3,4,5-p c n tachlorocy clopcn -tadienes from hexachlorocydo-pentadiene and trialkyl phosphites, 43, 90 AlleNE, 43,12... 

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) ... 

Using acyl chlorides of fatty acids in connection with trialkyl phosphite leads to surface-active a-hydroxyalkanephosphonic acids according to Eqs. (37)-(39). 

Examples of the intermolecular C-P bond formation by means of radical phosphonation and phosphination have been achieved by reaction of aryl halides with trialkyl phosphites and chlorodiphenylphosphine, respectively, in the presence of (TMSlsSiH under standard radical conditions. The phosphonation reaction (Reaction 71) worked well either under UV irradiation at room temperature or in refluxing toluene. The radical phosphina-tion (Reaction 72) required pyridine in boiling benzene for 20 h. Phosphinated products were handled as phosphine sulfides. Scheme 15 shows the reaction mechanism for the phosphination procedure that involves in situ formation of tetraphenylbiphosphine. This approach has also been extended to the phosphination of alkyl halides and sequential radical cyclization/phosphination reaction. ... 

Sulfonic esters are most frequently prepared by treatment of the corresponding halides with alcohols in the presence of a base. The method is much used for the conversion of alcohols to tosylates, brosylates, and similar sulfonic esters. Both R and R may be alkyl or aryl. The base is often pyridine, which functions as a nucleophilic catalyst, as in the similar alcoholysis of carboxylic acyl halides (10-21). Primary alcohols react the most rapidly, and it is often possible to sulfonate selectively a primary OH group in a molecule that also contains secondary or tertiary OH groups. The reaction with sulfonamides has been much less frequently used and is limited to N,N-disubstituted sulfonamides that is, R" may not be hydrogen. However, within these limits it is a useful reaction. The nucleophile in this case is actually R 0 . However, R" may be hydrogen (as well as alkyl) if the nucleophile is a phenol, so that the product is RS020Ar. Acidic catalysts are used in this case. Sulfonic acids have been converted directly to sulfonates by treatment with triethyl or trimethyl orthoformate HC(OR)3, without catalyst or solvent and with a trialkyl phosphite P(OR)3. ... 

Similar reactions between diketopiperazine and either trialkyl phosphites or alkyl phosphinates produced the related cyclic analogs 17 and 18 (24). 

Aliphatic trialkyl phosphites also reacted with HHT 25 under neat conditions and elevated temperatures (>100 °C) to produce glyphosate triesters such as 26 (27). However, the reaction proceeded at much lower temperatures (10 °C) when titanium tetrachloride was present in equimolar amounts (33). 

An interesting variation of this reaction that made use of a three-component, one-pot solventless procedure with the corresponding trialkyl phosphites gave dramatically improved yields of many heterosubstituted glyphosate phosphonate diesters (37). When exactly one equivalent of water, 25, and tris-p-chloroethyl phosphite were mixed and heated under neat conditions for a few hours, nearly quantitative yields of displaced p-chloroethanol and the desired triester product 27 were obtained. If desired, the displaced alcohol was first removed by vacuum distillation, or the mixture could be hydrolyzed directly to GLYH3. Various oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, cyano, and carboxylate functionalities were similarly accommodated in the trialkyl phosphite. 

This classical C-P bond-forming reaction (51) has seen limited application in the glyphosate arena, presumably for lack of suitable substrates that can tolerate the vigorous reaction conditions. Typically, C-P bond formation occurs when an alkyl halide reacts with excess neat trialkyl phosphite at temperatures exceeding 100 °C, near the boiling point of the phosphite. An Arbuzov-based strategy for glyphosate requires the synthesis of the... 

Alkoxy (R0 ) radicals react at near diffusion controlled rates with trialkyl phosphites to give phosphoranyl radicals [ROP(OR )3] that typically undergo very fast -scission to generate alkyl radicals (R ) and phosphates [OP(OR )3]. In a mechanistic study, trimethyl phosphite, P(OMe)3, has been used as an efficient and selective trap in oxiranylcarbinyl radical systems formed from haloepoxides under thermal AIBN/n-Bu3SnH conditions at about 80 °C (Scheme 27) [64]. The formation of alkenes resulting from the capture of allyloxy radicals by P(OMe)3 fulfils a prior prediction that, under conditions close to kinetic control, products of C-0 cleavage (path a. Scheme 27), not just those of C-C cleavage (path b. Scheme 27) may result. 

B. l,3>2>Dioxaphospholens.—The kinetics of the addition of trialkyl phosphites to benzil have been investigated spectrophotometrically. The second-order reaction of trimethyl phosphite in dioxan has activation parameters of A// = 8.4 kcal mol and AS = — 47.5 e.u. In benzene the rate constant increases linearly with low concentrations of added organic acid and decreases linearly with low concentrations of added base. The Diels-Alder mechanism is considered unlikely on the basis of these data, and the slow step is considered to be nucleophilic addition of the phosphite to the carbon of the carbonyl group (see Scheme). 

D. Miscellaneous.—Low yields of the spirophosphoranes (34) were obtained on heating the phosphorane (32) with the aziridines (33). Stable phosphoranes have been obtained from phenanthraquinone mono-imine (35) and trialkyl phosphites, and from 2-chlorotropone (36) and ylides. In the latter reaction cyanomethylenetriphenylphosphorane gave instead the betaine (37). 

A detailed kinetic study of the reaction of trialkyl phosphites (44) with benzil has been carried out (see Chapter 2 for the reactions of a-diketones with trialkyl phosphites). The reaction is first-order in both phosphite and benzil and the rate constant increases with the dielectric constant of the solvent. The authors propose initial attack of phosphite at carbonyl carbon (45), in opposition to the original suggestion by Ramirez, who proposed initial attack at carbonyl oxygen. 

The reaction of dialkyl and trialkyl phosphites with / -quinonedisul-phonimides (65) has evoked considerable interest. Levy and Sprecher isolated the nitrogen phosphorylated product (66) in 80% yield from a reaction with dialkyl phosphite, although other workers claim that attack is at carbon to give (67). 

A useful new method of preparing arylphosphonates (123) involves the reaction of trialkyl phosphites with aryl halides in the presence of a nickel catalyst.The suggested mechanism is via the nickel complex (124), and is non-radical. 

Perkov reaction of a trialkyl phosphite with a-chlorothioacetone leads to the 5-phosphorylated enol derivative (7). Not unexpectedly, the phospho-nate ester (8) is formed as a by-product, and in view of studies on the Perkov... 

Pyridylphosphonic acid derivatives (68) have been prepared by addition of dialkyl phosphite anion to A-alkoxypyridinium salts. Similar compounds, it is reported, are formed from trialkyl phosphites with... 

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