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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
Fluorinated phosphorus-selenium heteroatom compounds: phenylphosphonofluorodiselenoic salts, adducts, and esters
Guoxiong Hua1, Junyi Du, Alexandra M Z Slawin
1EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
2,4-Bis(phenyl)-1,3-diselenadiphosphetane-2,4-diselenide, [PhP(Se)(μ-Se)]2, Woollins' reagent (WR), reacts with dry KF or tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) at room temperature generating the corresponding potassium and tetrabutylammonium phenyldiselenofluorophosphinates 1 and 2 in almost quantitative yields. Treating 1 with equimolar amounts of tetraphenylphosphonium chloride or 1,3-dimesityl-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride in THF at room temperature afforded the corresponding organic adducts 3 and 4 in 90% and 87% yields. Reaction of 1 with mono- and dihalogenated alkanes gave a series of esters of phenylphosphonofluoridodiselenoates 5-8 and 9 in 79-93% yields. Two representative crystal structures are reported.
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