Relative Ease of Formation of Alkylidine(oxo and thioxo)phosphorane Intermediates in Nucleophilic Substitution at Phosphonyl and Thiophosphonyl Centres
Abstract:The conversion of R 2 CHP(X)(NEt 2 )Cl (R 2 CH 9-fluorenyl) into R 2 CHP(X)(NEt 2 ) 2 via the intermediate R 2 C.P(X)NEt 2 (elimination±addition mechanism) is much faster when X S than when X O.
The phosphonochloridate R(2)CHP(O)(YEt)Cl (R(2)CH = fluoren-9-yl, Y = O or S) reacts with Pr(i)(2)NH largely or exclusively by an elimination-addition mechanism; the three-coordinate phosphene intermediate R(2)C=P(O)YEt is formed ca. 10(3) times more easily when Y = S than when Y = O.
The phosphonochloridate R(2)CHP(O)(YEt)Cl (R(2)CH = fluoren-9-yl, Y = O or S) reacts with Pr(i)(2)NH largely or exclusively by an elimination-addition mechanism; the three-coordinate phosphene intermediate R(2)C=P(O)YEt is formed ca. 10(3) times more easily when Y = S than when Y = O.
New 1,3-digermacyclobutanes, with two exocyclic C=PMes* bonds, and the corresponding first bis(methylenethioxo)phosphoranes with C=P(S)Mes* moieties have been synthesized.
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