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Molecules that we made: An essay on phosphorus chemistry

✍ Scribed by Alfred Schmidpeter


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
227 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1042-7163

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✦ Synopsis


In 1963, I was looking for a reagent that could convert a nitrosamine to a triazene, and I thought that a phosphazene in a Wittig-type reaction might do so. What I had intended never came true, but it caused me to look more closely at phosphorus chemistry. This look made me stay there for the rest of my days in research.

At that time, there was much discussion about the bonding in cyclophosphazenes. Irritatingly, we write the formula of a cyclotriphosphazene like that of an aromatic six-membered ring. Would fragments of these two ring types in praxi fit together? By different multistep syntheses [1-6], and by subsequent substitution reactions [7-9], we prepared many triazaphosphinines and triazadiphosphinines, such as 1. X-ray analyses [10,11] documented the clean merger of the two parts.


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