Synthetic routest oe nantiopure P-stereogenic tetraphosphacrowns, containing four chiral phosphorus atoms, using aP -stereogenic secondaryb isphosphine are reported. 18-Tetraphosphacrown-6 and 24-tetraphosphacrown-8 derivatives were prepared by as ingle-step and multistep method, respectively,a nd their characterizationsa re described in detail. Removal of boranes from the 24-tetraphosphacrown-8 derivative and subsequent complexation with platinum(II) are also described.
Results and DiscussionFirst we tried to synthesize an 18-membered P-stereogenic tetraphosphacrown by ao ne-pot reactionf rom as econdary bisphosphine and diethylene glycol bis(p-toluenesulfonate);t he reactiono ft he (S,S)-isomer is shown in Scheme 1. The synthetic route to the secondary bisphosphine (S,S)-1·BH 3 has already been established by CrØpy and Imamoto. [19] After dilithiation of (S,S)-1·BH 3 with nBuLi in THF at À78 8C, the addition of diethylene glycol bis(p-toluenesulfonate) as an electrophile provided am ixture of the target 18-tetraphosphacrown-6 (R,R,R,R)-2·BH 3[a] R.