Facile, Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Phosphines Using β-Diketiminate Iron(II) Complexes
Andrew K King1, Antoine Buchard1, Mary F Mahon1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY (UK).
Abstract:
Catalytic dehydrocoupling of primary and secondary phosphines has been achieved for the first time using an iron pre-catalyst. The reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions and is successful with a range of diarylphosphines. A proton acceptor is not needed for the transformation to take place, but addition of 1-hexene does allow for turnover at 50 °C. The catalytic system developed also facilitates the dehydrocoupling of phenylphosphane and dicyclohexylphosphane. A change in solvent switches off dehydrocoupling to allow hydrophosphination of alkenes.
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