Triphenylphosphine oxide, promoter

Tertiary phosphine groups with long alkyl chains bound directly to phosphorus or substituted at the para position of triphenylphosphine give rise to a range of interesting and potentially useful complexes. In particular these may be used to prepare polyolefin hydrogenation catalysts based on platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes that are both more active and more selective towards reduction to monoolefins than previous catalysts based on these systems. The platinum(II) complexes are better than the palladium(II) complexes. Additionally the new phosphines are more effective than triphenylphosphine in promoting the oxidative addition of methyl iodide to trans- [Rh(PR3)2Cl(CO)]. 

The electrochemistry of a number of such six-coordinate compounds [MnXL]+ and seven-coordinate compounds [MX2L] (with L = (203), R,R = Me and X = halide, water, triphenylphosphine oxide, imidazole, 1-methylimidazole or pyridine) has been investigated.551 The redox behaviour of these compounds was of interest because it was considered that the potentially -acceptor macrocycle (203 R = R = Me) may promote the formation of Mn° or Mn1 species or may yield a metal-stabilized ligand radical with the manganese remaining in its divalent state. For a number of macrocyclic ligand systems, it has been demonstrated that the redox behaviour can be quite dependent on axial ligation it was also of interest to study whether this was the case for the present systems. 

The five-coordinate triphenylphosphine oxide and HMPA complexes of triorganotins (Table 24) adopt the common frawy-TBP geometry at the Sn atom. The presence of HMPA in the axial position and aryl groups in the equatorial positions promotes a decrease in the ASn value, and consequently, approach to ideal TBP configuration. The elongation of the Sn—X distance is due to the hypervalent bond character in the O —> Sn—X axial fragment. For example, the Sn—Br bonds of 2.57-2.75 A are lengthened relative to the bond of 2.295 A in the parent triphenyltin bromide . 

Molecular oxygen has become a commonly used co-catalyst for inactive or weakly active transition metal complexes [1-5]. In addition, other oxidizing agents, mainly peroxides, have recently been used in active rhodium complexes in particular, but also in metal carbonyls, as catalysts for hydrosilylation. The catalytic activity of bis(triphenylphosphine)carbonylrhodium(I) in the hydrosilylation of C=C and C=0 bonds can be much increased by the addition of about a 50 % molar excess of tert-butyl hydroperoxide [100]. Chromium triad carbonyls M(CO)e, where M = Cr, Mo, W, have been tested to examine the effect of various organic peroxides on the hydrosilylation of 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene by triethyl-, triethoxy- and methyldiethoxysilanes [100]. The evidence for organic oxidant promotion of RhCl(cod)phosphine-catalyzed hydrosilylation of 1-hexene was demonstrated previously [101]. 

Mitsunobu-like Processes. Triphenylphosphonium 3,3-dime-thyl-l,2,5-thiadiazolidine 1,1-dioxide (1) can be conveniently utilized as a stable source of [PhsP+J in the promotion of Mitsunobu-like processes. By analogy with the betaine generated by reaction of DEAD and triphenylphosphine, protonation of zwitterionic species 1 by an acidic component HX generates ion pair 2 which on subsequent reaction with an alcohol (ROH) affords oxyphosphonium species (3) and 3,3-dimethyl-1,2,5-thiadiazolidine-1,1-dioxide (4). Finally, Sn2 displacement reaction, occurring with Walden inversion of the alcohol stereochemistry, leads to the coupled product R-X and triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO) (eq 1). 

As noted earlier, triphenylphosphine oxide is typically a by-product of the Appel reaction. A significant amount of this by-product is generated from a classic Appel process, and it has been difficult to remove from the product in some cases. A clever approach to the synthesis entailed the use of catalytic amounts of this by-product to promote the reaction (Scheme 7.27) [44]. The key to this chemistry was the use of oxalyl chloride to generate chlorophosphonium salts that were the active species in the chlorodeoxygenation reaction. The reaction conditions were quite mild, and a host of alcohols were successful converted into alkyl chlorides. 

Oxiranes can be prepared by electrochemical oxidation. " Regioselective w-epoxidation of polyisoprenoids will take place with excellent yields on sodium bromide-promoted electrochemical oxidation in neutral or basic medium. " " This has now been described as a general method. " " Hexafluoropropylene oxiranes have been produced by electrochemical means. " The deoxygenation of dioxetane to oxirane with triphenylphosphine has been described (Eq, 50). ... 

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