Imino-Bridged Bisphosphaalkenes (2,4-Diphospha-3-azapentadienes)
✍ Scribed by Roxana M. Bîrzoi; Delia Bugnariu; Rafael Guerrero Gimeno; Daniela Lungu; Vera Zota; Constantin Daniliuc; Peter G. Jones; Zoltán Benkõ; László Könczöl; László Nyulászi; Rainer Bartsch; Wolf-W. du Mont; Edgar Niecke
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 364 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0947-6539
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✦ Synopsis
Deprotonation of aminophosphaalkenes (RMe(2)Si)(2)C=PN(H)(R') (R=Me, iPr; R'=tBu, 1-adamantyl (1-Ada), 2,4,6-tBu(3)C(6)H(2) (Mes*)) followed by reactions of the corresponding Li salts Li[(RMe(2)Si)(2)C=P(M)(R')] with one equivalent of the corresponding P-chlorophosphaalkenes (RMe(2)Si)(2)C=PCl provides bisphosphaalkenes (2,4-diphospha-3-azapentadienes) (RMe(2)Si)(2)C=PNR'. The thermally unstable tert-butyliminobisphosphaalkene (Me(3)Si)(2)C=PNtBu (4 a) undergoes isomerisation reactions by Me(3)Si-group migration that lead to mixtures of four-membered heterocyles, but in the presence of an excess amount of (Me(3)Si)(2)C=PCl, 4 a furnishes an azatriphosphabicyclohexene C(3)(SiMe(3))(5)P(3)NtBu (5) that gave red single crystals. Compound 5 contains a diphosphirane ring condensed with an azatriphospholene system that exhibits an endocylic P=C double bond and an exocyclic ylidic P((+))-C((-))(SiMe(3))(2) unit. Using the bulkier iPrMe(2)Si substituents at three-coordinated carbon leads to slightly enhanced thermal stability of 2,4-diphospha-3-azapentadienes (iPrMe(2)Si)(2)C=PNR' (R'=tBu: 4 b; R'=1-Ada: 8). According to a low-temperature crystal-structure determination, 8 adopts a non-planar structure with two distinctly differently oriented P=C sites, but (31)P NMR spectra in solution exhibit singlet signals. (31)P NMR spectra also reveal that bulky Mes* groups (Mes*=2,4,6-tBu(3)C(6)H(2)) at the central imino function lead to mixtures of symmetric and unsymmetric rotamers, thus implying hindered rotation around the P-N bonds in persistent compounds (RMe(2)Si)(2)C=PNMes* (11 a, 11 b). DFT calculations for the parent molecule (H(3)Si)(2)C=PNCH(3) suggest that the non-planar distortion of compound 8 will have steric grounds.
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