Tricoordinated

The triply connected phosphoms compounds have a lone electron pair that dominates much of the chemistry for these compounds. Triply connected compounds typically exhibit pyramidal symmetry arising fromp hybridization. A considerable amount of sp character may be present as well. Bond angles range near 100° vs 90° theoretical. Tricoordinate compounds typically act as electron donors, forming metal coordination compounds and addition compounds such as H P BF [41593-56-0]. 

One of the most useful reactions in forming a P—C bond is the Michaehs-Arbusov reaction, which is a characteristic reaction of tricoordinate phosphoms compounds containing an alkoxy group (22). Alkylation of the electron pair is followed by rearrangement of the initial phosphonium salt. 

In this compound, synthesized in the low temperature reaction between diborane and excess ammonia, the cationic boron is coordinatively saturated in a tetrahedral environment. More recendy, cations having boron in tricoordinate or dicoordinate environments have been observed. These cationic species, called borenium and borinum ions, respectively, have been reviewed (19,20). 

When a stereogenic center is tricoordinate, as is the case for sulfoxides, sulfbnium salts, and phosphines, then a phantom atom of atomic number zero is taken to occupy... 

An inverse isotope effect will occur if coordination at the reaction center increases in the transition state. The bending vibration will become more restricted. Entry 4 in Scheme 4.2 exenqilifies such a case involving conversion of a tricoordinate carbonyl group to a letravalent cyanohydrin. In this case the secondary isotope effect is 0.73. 

The ionization mechanism for nucleophilic substitution proceeds by rate-determining heterolytic dissociation of the reactant to a tricoordinate carbocation (also sometimes referred to as a carbonium ion or carbenium ion f and the leaving group. This dissociation is followed by rapid combination of the highly electrophilic carbocation with a Lewis base (nucleophile) present in the medium. A two-dimensional potential energy diagram representing this process for a neutral reactant and anionic nucleophile is shown in Fig. 

TIricooRlinate caibocations are fiequendy called carbonium ions. The terms methyl cation, butyl cation, etc., are used to describe the c >rTesixiiulir.ji tricoordinate cations. Chemical Abstracts uses as specific names methylium, ethyUum, propylium. We will use carbocation as a generic term for trivalent carbon cations. 

Because carbocations are key intermediates in many nucleophilic substitution reactions, it is important to develop a grasp of their structural properties and the effect substituents have on stability. The critical step in the ionization mechanism of nucleophilic substitution is the generation of the tricoordinate carbocation intermediate. For this mechanism to operate, it is essential that this species not be prohibitively high in energy. Carbocations are inherently high-energy species. The ionization of r-butyl chloride is endothermic by 153kcal/mol in the gas phase. ... 

Any structural effect which reduces the electron deficiency at the tricoordinate carbon will have flie effect of stabilizing the caibocation. Allyl cations are stabilized by delocalization involving the adjacent double bond. 

Aldiough diese structures have a positive charge on a more electronegative atom, diey benefit from an additional bond which satisfies file octet requirement of the tricoordinate carbon. These carbocations are well represented by file doubly bonded resonance structures. One indication of file participation of adjacent oxygen substituents is file existence of a barrier to rotation about the C—O bonds in this type of carbocation. 

Tricoordinate sulfur compounds are chiral when sulfur bears three different substituents. The rate of pyranidal inversion at sulfur is rather slow. The most common compounds in which sulfur is a chuality center are sulfoxides such as ... 

Section 7.16 Atoms other than carbon can be chirality centers. Examples include those based on tetracoordinate silicon and tricoordinate sulfur as the chirality center. In principle, tricoordinate nitrogen can be a chirality center in compounds of the type N(x, y, z), where x, y, and z are different, but inversion of the nitrogen pyramid is so fast that racernization occurs vit -tually instantly at room temperature. 

The converse of polymerization is heterolytic bond scission leading either to R3Sn+ or R3Sn species. Tricoordinate organotin(IV) cations can readily be synthesized at room temperature by hydride or halide abstraction reactions in benzene or other solvents.For example, with R = Me, Bu or Ph ... 

Previously, the same author [52] reported that compounds containing the tricoordinated sulfur cation, such as the triphenylsulfonium salt, worked as effective initiators in the free radical polymerization of MMA and styrene [52]. Because of the structural similarity of sulfonium salt and ylide, diphenyloxosulfonium bis-(me-thoxycarbonyl) methylide (POSY) (Scheme 28), which contains a tetracoordinated sulfur cation, was used as a photoinitiator by Kondo et al. [63] for the polymerization of MMA and styrene. The photopolymerization was carried out with a high-pressure mercury lamp the orders of reaction with respect to [POSY] and [MMA] were 0.5 and 1.0, respectively, as expected for radical polymerization. 

Although carbanionic and enolate species are most often sulfinylated using sulfinate esters, particularly homochiral ester 19, other tricoordinate S(IV) compounds may be used in their place. Sulfinamides (66) and cyclic sulfite ester-amides (67) are two examples of such compounds. 

Many reactions are known which involve the sulfur atom in sulfoxides and other tricoordinate S(IV) species. Three situations are common in these reactions, i.e. the sulfur atom may remain tricoordinate, its coordination number may be reduced to two, or it may be increased to four. If the sulfur atom is rendered dicoordinate, it can no longer be stereogenic so such transformations will not be considered here. Reactions which leave the coordination number at three usually take place with inversion of configuration or... 

Tricoordinate groups, such as sulfinyl (—SO—) and sulfonio (—S + R2), and a tetracoordinate group like sulfonyl (—S02—), possess partial positive charge on the central sulfur atom and hence are electron-withdrawing. The magnitude of the electron-... 

Sulfoxides (R1—SO—R2), which are tricoordinate sulfur compounds, are chiral when R1 and R2 are different, and a-sulfmyl carbanions derived from optically active sulfoxides are known to retain the chirality. Therefore, these chiral carbanions usually give products which are rich in one diastereomer upon treatment with some prochiral reagents. Thus, optically active sulfoxides have been used as versatile reagents for asymmetric syntheses of many naturally occurring products116, since optically active a-sulfinyl carbanions can cause asymmetric induction in the C—C bond formation due to their close vicinity. In the following four subsections various reactions of a-sulfinyl carbanions are described (A) alkylation and acylation, (B) addition to unsaturated bonds such as C=0, C=N or C= N, (C) nucleophilic addition to a, /5-unsaturated sulfoxides, and (D) reactions of allylic sulfoxides. 

The structurally simplest silicon reagent that has been used to reduce sulphoxides is the carbene analog, dimethylsilylene (Me2Si )29. This molecule was used as a mechanistic probe and did not appear to be useful synthetically. Other silanes that have been used to reduce sulphoxides include iodotrimethylsilane, which is selective but unstable, and chlorotrimethylsilane in the presence of sodium iodide, which is easy to use, but is unselective since it cleaves esters, lactones and ethers it also converts alcohols into iodides. To circumvent these complications, Olah30 has developed the use of methyltrichlorosilane, again in the presence of sodium iodide, in dry acetonitrile (equation 8). A standard range of sulphoxides was reduced under mild conditions, with yields between 80 and 95% and with a simple workup process. The mechanism for the reaction is probably very similar to that given in equation (6), if the tricoordinate boron atoms in this reaction scheme are replaced... 

Since the central carbon of tricoordinated carbocations has only three bonds and no other valence electrons, the bonds are sp and should be planar. Raman, IR, and NMR spectroscopic data on simple alkyl cations show this to be so. In methylcycohexyl cations there are two chair conformations where the carbon bearing the positive charge is planar (9 and 10), and there is evidence that difference is hyperconjugation make 10 more stable. Other evidence is that carbocations are difficult to form at bridgehead atoms in [2.2.1] systems, where they cannot be planar (see p. 397). ° Bridgehead carbocations are known, however, as in [2.1.1]... 

The acute-angle coordinations were similarly predicted for tricoordinated metal complexes [66]. The acute O-Al-O angles of trihydrated aluminum clusters were reported [67]. 

Phosphine-borane 63a (75% ee) was obtained by reduction of compound (Sp)-62a using LDBB at -60°C and nucleophilic substitution with iodomethane in 72 % yield. The observed loss of optical purity may be ascribed to stereomutation of the generated tricoordinated phosphorus species. Recrystallization afforded (S)-63a in > 99% ee. On the other hand, severe racemization was observed using the same method with (Rp)-62b. An alternative strategy consisted of deborana-tion of (Rp)-62b using ZSl-methylpyrrolidine, methylation with methyl triflate. 

There are also data on pX values of various substituted phenols, as shown in Table 3. The electron-withdrawing effect of the ammonio group is due only to its inductive effect and this can be seen in the higher acidity of the m-substituted compared with the p-substituted phenol the value of is negative, — 0.08. In contrast, all the tricoordinate and tetracoordinate sulfur groups exert a stronger electron-withdrawing effect from the p-position than from the m-position, as is evident from the positive values of This is the same trend as in the acid dissociations of nitrophenols, in which is -I- 0.53. 

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