Tris -Triphenylphosphine

Halpern J and Wong C S 1973 Hydrogenation of tris(triphenylphosphine)chlororhodium(l) Chem. Commun. 629-30... 

The replacement of rhodium from a wide range of rhodacycles to form condensed furans, thiophenes, selenophenes, tellurophenes and pyrroles has been widely explored and a range of examples is shown in Scheme 97. The rhodacycles are readily generated from the appropriate dialkyne and tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium chloride. Replacement of the rhodium by sulfur, selenium or tellurium is effected by direct treatment with the element, replacement by oxygen using m-chloroperbenzoic acid and by nitrogen using nitrosobenzene. 

A very significant recent development in the field of catalytic hydrogenation has been the discovery that certain transition metal coordination complexes catalyze the hydrogenation of olefinic and acetylenic bonds in homogeneous solution.Of these catalysts tris-(triphenylphosphine)-chloror-hodium (131) has been studied most extensively.The mechanism of the deuteration of olefins with this catalyst is indicated by the following scheme (131 -> 135) ... 

In benzene or similar solvents, tris(triphenylphosphine)halogenorhodium(I) complexes, RhX[P(C6H5)3]3, are extremely efficient catalysts for the homogeneous hydrogenation of nonconjugated olefins and acetylenes at ambient temperature and pressures of 1 atmosphere (6). Functional groups (keto-, nitro-, ester, and so on) are not reduced under these conditions. 

A neat mixture of the /l-unsaturated ketone (10mmol), triethylsilane (11 mmol), and tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(i) chloride (0.01 mmol) was stirred at 50°C for 2h, and the product silyl enol ether was distilled directly (yields 90-98%). 

A mixture of the a/J-unsaturated ester (14mmol), t-butyldimethylsilane (18 mmol) and tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(i) chloride (0.56 mmol) was placed in a pre-heated (100°C) oil bath, and the course of reaction monitored by i.r. spectroscopy. On completion (ca. 30 min) the product was isolated by direct distillation (60-88%). 

Rhodium-catalysed addition (10) of hydridosilanes (Chapter 17) to a/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds can be performed regioselectively, to afford either the product of 1,2-addition, or, perhaps more usefully, that of 1,4-addition, i.e. the corresponding silyl enol ether this latter process is an excellent method for the regiospecific generation of silyl enol ethers. Of all catalyst systems investigated, tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(l) chloride proved to be the best. 

Note. Use of tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(i) chloride/triethylsilane gave somewhat poorer results in terms of stereoselectivity, ca. 10 90. 

Rhodium, hydridotetrakis(triphenyl phosphite)-, 4,923 Rhodium, hydrido(trifluorophosphine)tris-(triphenylphosphine)-, 4,921 Rhodium, hydrido(triphenylarsine)tris-(triphenylphosphine)-, 4,921,924 Rhodium, hydridotris(triphenylphosphine)-, 4, 916 preparation, 4, 916... 

Samarium, tris(triphenylphosphine oxide)bis-(diethyldithiophosphato)-structure, 1,78 Samarium complexes dipositive oxidation state hydrated ions, 3, 1109 Samarium(III) complexes salicylic acid crystal structure, 2, 481 Sampsonite, 3, 265... 

Bis-[triphenylphosphin]-carbonyl-dichloro- 703 Tris-[triphenylphosphin]-carbonyl-chloro- 703... 

Gonjugation of polyunsaturated fats Methyl linoleate with tris(triphenylphosphine) chlororhodium. J.Am. Oil Chem. Soc., 48, 21-24. 

The octacyclic dimer (+)-94 could be obtained in short order from the tetracyclic bromide (+)-93 via a Co(I)-mediated reductive dimerization protocol first implemented in our prior syntheses of (+)-chimonanthine (7), (+)-folicanthine (8), and (—)-calycanthine (9) [7]. Simple exposure of intermediate (+)-93 to tris (triphenylphosphine)cobalt(I) chloride [48] in acetone under anaerobic conditions rapidly afforded dimer (+)-94 in 46 % yield. While higher yields (52 % yield) could be obtained in tetrahydrofuran on small scale, performing the reaction in acetone reproducibly afforded higher yields on gram scales. Notably, the product was obtained in similar efficiency on multi-gram scale (43 % yield on 8-g scale)... 

The 1,4-reduction of a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes is best carried out with diphenylsilane in the presence of zinc chloride and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine) palladium436 or a combination of triethylsilane and tris(triphenylphosphine) chlororhodium 437 Other practical approaches use phenylsilane with nickel (0) and triphenylphosphine438 and diphenylsilane with cesium fluoride.83 It is possible to isolate the initial silyl enol ether intermediate from the 1,4-hydrosilylation of o, /3-unsaturated aldehydes (Eq. 264).73,411 The silyl enol ethers are produced as a mixture of E and Z isomers. 

Wender et al. have demonstrated the power of the rhodium-catalyzed [5 + 2]-cycload-dition reaction discovered in their laboratories by synthesizing (+)-dictamnol (148) [33], Allenylvinylcyclopropane 145 was treated with rhodium biscarbonyl chloride dimer or rhodium tris(triphenylphosphine) chloride (Scheme 19.27). Both catalysts provided the cycloadduct 146 in 70-76% yield and high diastereoselectivity (8-9 1). The diaster-eoselectivity was attributed to the C8 hydroxyl group assuming a position on the less sterically encumbered exo face of the transition-state structure 147. 

The tritium labelled V.fischeri AHL 31 was prepared with a specific activity of 45-55 Ci/mmol by the tritiation of the corresponding unsaturated precursor, AT-(3-oxo-4-hexenoyl)-L-HSL 30 in the presence of a homogeneous Wilkinson s catalyst, tris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium[I] chloride (Scheme 13) [71]. 

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