From Functional Phospholide Ions to Bifunctional 1,1′-Diphosphaferrocenes
摘要:
Both the 2-ethoxycarbonyl and the 2-benzoyl phospholides (1 and 2) react with FeCl(2) in the presence of ZnCl(2) to give the corresponding 2,2'-difunctional 1,1'-diphosphaferrocenes as mixtures of meso and rac diastereomers. Stable rotamers are also detected by (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy. Under the same conditions, the 2,5-bis(ethoxycarbonyl)phospholide (3) gives the tetrafunctional 1,1'-biphospholyl (6). The diphosphaferrocenes and the 1,1'-biphospholyl are probably formed from a common type of intermediates with a bis(eta(1) -phospholyl)iron structure. DFT computations indicate that this kind of intermediate is pyramidal at P and only weakly aromatic.