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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
Published on: November 22, 2016
Synthesis and complexation of heptafluoroisopropyldiphenylphosphine
Lesley C Lewis-Alleyne1, Makeba B Murphy-Jolly, Xavier F Le Goff
1Department of Chemistry, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.
Abstract:
We report a one-step synthesis of the phosphine, PPh(2)(i)C(3)F(7) from commercially available precursors. The stereoelectronic properties of the phosphine were probed by coordination to transition metals. Mo(CO)(5)PPh(2)(i)C(3)F(7) was synthesised and the synthesis and structure of trans-PtCl(2)(PPh(2)(i)C(3)F(7))(2) are described. PPh(2)(i)C(3)F(7) was found to be a bulky electron-withdrawing ligand.
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