Triphenylarsine: Arsine, triphenyl

Silver(l) oxide Silver oxide (8) Silver oxide (Ag20) (9) (20667-12-3) Triphenylarsine Arsine, triphenyl- (8,9) (603-32-7)... 

A facile method for the preparation of a variety of stabilized arsonium ylides in good yield has been developed by the action of active methylene compounds with tertiary arsine oxide or tertiary arsine dihalide. Thus triphenyl-arsine dihalides react with a number of active methylene compounds in the presence of a tertiary amine to afford arsonium ylides (6) (40). The reaction of triphenylarsine oxide with active methylene compounds in the presence of either acetic anhydride or triethylamine-phos-phorus pentoxide gave rise to arsonium ylides (6) (32, 36. 65, 67). 

More limited investigations of the oxidation of triorganoarsines in the presence of transition metal complexes have been carried out but it appears that many of the same complexes which catalyze phosphine oxidation are also effective for arsines. The ruthenium complex, [Ru(NCSXN0XPPh3)2(02)], for example, has been found to be an efficient catalyst for the oxidation of triphenylarsine [79] the initial rate of oxidation being three to four times greater than the corresponding rate for triphenyl-phosphine oxidation under the same conditions. However, the rate of this oxidation was rapidly diminished by decomposition of the catalyst so that in a short time ca. 30 min) the catalyst was virtually ineffective. 

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