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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
1,1,2,2-Tetra-kis(diisopropyl-amino)diphosphane
Rafał Grubba1, Lukasz Ponikiewski, Jarosław Chojnacki
1Chemical Faculty, Gdansk University of Technology, G.Narutowicza 11/12, Gdansk PL-80233, Poland.
Abstract:
In the title compound, C(24)H(56)N(4)P(2), the distance between the P atoms [2.2988 (8) and 2.3013 (13) Å in the major and minor occupancy components, respectively] is one of the longest reported for uncoordinated diphosphanes. The whole mol-ecule is disordered over two positions with site-occupation factors of 0.6447 (8) and 0.3553 (8). The structure adopts the synperiplanar conformation in the solid state [N-P-P-N torsion angle = 14.7 (5)°].
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