ISSN:
1042-7163
Keywords:
Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Nucleophilicity dominates the reaction chemistry of 1,3,4-triphenyl-1,2-dihydrophosphete even when it is coordinated to electrophilic metal centers, but coordination dramatically alters the course of its reactions. Deoxygenation of carbonyl-containing substrates is effected by both the W(CO)5 complex, which reductively couples benzaldehyde, and the HgCl2 complex, which converts benzaldehyde to α,α-dichlorotoluene. Metal coordination appears to decrease the tendency of the dihydrophosphete to undergo electrocyclic ring opening to the corresponding 1-phosphabutadiene, and the HgCl2 complex reacts with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to afford a cyclopentadienyl ylide containing an intact dihydrophosphete unit. By reducing the nucleophilicity of the dihydrophosphete and/or the availability of the highly nucleophilic uncoordinated dihydrophosphete, coordination to HgCl2 and W(CO)5 makes accessible new mechanistic pathways. Dihydrooxaphosphinines, although unavailable through the reactions of the dihydrophosphete, may be synthesized by exploitation of the reactivity of organotitanium metallacycles. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 9:21-28, 1998
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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