摘要:
                                The pentafluorophenyl-substituted diphosphine (C6F5)PhPCH2CH2PPh(C6F5) has been prepared, as a 1: 1.7 mixture of rac (1a) and meso (1b) isomers, in four steps from dppe. The reaction between [Cp*RhCl-(mu-Cl)](2) and 1 in the presence of tetrafluoroborate yielded a mixture of racemic diastereoisomers of [Cp*RhCl(kappa P,kappa P-1a)][BF4] (4a center dot BF4) and trans and cis isomers of [Cp*RhCl(kappa P,kappa P-1b)][BF4] (4b center dot BF4 and 4c center dot BF4, respectively). On addition of Proton Sponge, 4a and 4c, in which at least one pentafluorophenyl group is close to the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand, underwent rapid dehydrofluorinative carbon-carbon coupling giving trans- and cis-[{eta(5), kappa P,kappa P-C5Me4CH2C6F4-2-PPhCH2CH2PPh(C6F5)}RhCl](+) (5 and 6), respectively. The latter underwent further dehydrofluorinative carbon-carbon coupling to give two isomers of [{eta(5) kappa P,kappa P-C5Me3[CH2C6F4-2-PPhCH2](2)}RhCl](+) (7). Isomerization of 4b to 4c was observed in chloroform and dimethlysulfoxide. Neither isomerization of 4a to 4b or 4c nor isomerization of 5 to 6 was observed at ambient or elevated temperature in dimethyl sulfoxide. The results provide the first evidence that complexes of eta(5),kappa P,kappa L-cyclopentadienyl-phosphine-donor ligands are configurationally stable at high temperature.