[P(μ-NTer)]2: A Biradicaloid That Is Stable at High Temperature
[P(μ-NTer)]2: A Biradicaloid That Is Stable at High Temperature
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201103742
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Villinger, Alexander
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作者:
Beweries, Torsten;Kuzora, Rene;Villinger, Alexander
As early as 1894 Michaelis and Schroeter isolated the first phosphorus (III)–nitrogen heterocycle from the reaction of aniline hydrochloride with an excess of PCl3 (Scheme 1).[1] Interestingly, the authors assumed to have isolated the monomeric species, C6H5ÀN= PÀCl, which they called “phosphazobenzene chloride” but already speculated on the existence of the dimer. Today we know that the dimer is the stable form, and such four-membered rings of the type [XP (μ-NR)] 2, which contain alternating phosphorus (III) and nitrogen centers, are called cyclo-1, 3-diphospha (III)-2, 4-diazanes (X= halogen, R= organic group; old name: 1, 3-diaza-2, 4-diphosphetidines).[2] They play a major role in preparative phosphorus–nitrogen chemistry because such species are good starting materials for polycyclic inorganic and organometallic compounds.[3, 4]Cyclo-1, 3-diphospha (III)-2, 4-diazanes (1) can exist as cis or trans isomers with trigonal-pyramidal P and trigonal-planar N atoms.[3] Both the N and the P atoms have one localized lone pair. Thus, formally eight electrons are found for this type of electron-rich heterocycles (Scheme 2). To the best of our knowledge, four-membered P2N2 rings bearing 6 π electrons are unknown. As illustrated in Scheme 2, three possible target molecules (2, 3, and 4) with electronic structures that are related to those of aromatic hydrocarbons ([4n+ 2] π electrons),[5] can be considered. The most promising candidate for synthesis seemed to be the neutral cyclo-1, 3-