作者:Mark L. G. Borst、Rosa E. Bulo、Danièle J. Gibney、Yonathan Alem、Frans J. J. de Kanter、Andreas W. Ehlers、Marius Schakel、Martin Lutz、Anthony L. Spek、Koop Lammertsma
DOI:10.1021/ja054885w
日期:2005.12.1
The synthesis of a variety of benzophosphepine complexes [R = Ph, t-Bu, Me; MLn = W(CO)(5), Mo(CO)(5), Cr(CO)(5), Mn(CO)(2)Cp] by two successive hydrophosphinations of 1,2-diethynylbenzene is discussed in detail. The first hydrophosphination step proceeds at ambient temperature without additional promoters, and subsequent addition of base allows full conversion to benzophosphepines. Novel benzeno-1,4-diphosphinanes were isolated as side products. The benzophosphepine complexes themselves serve as convenient phosphinidene precursors at elevated, substituent-dependent temperatures (> 55 degrees C). Kinetic and computational analyses support the proposal that the phosphepine-phosphanorcaradiene isomerization is the rate-determining step. In the absence of substrate, addition of the transient phosphinidene to another benzophosphepine molecule is observed, and addition to 1,2-diethynylbenzene furnishes a delicate bidentate diphosphirene complex.