NHC-mediated synthesis of an asymmetric, cationic phosphoranide, a phosphanide, and coinage-metal phosphanido complexes.
NHC-mediated synthesis of an asymmetric, cationic phosphoranide, a phosphanide, and coinage-metal phosphanido complexes.
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10.1002/anie.201308309
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2013-12
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K. Schwedtmann;Michael H. Holthausen;Kai‐Oliver Feldmann;J. Weigand
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K. Schwedtmann;Michael H. Holthausen;Kai‐Oliver Feldmann;J. Weigand
The use of imidazole-based N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as reagents in phosphorus chemistry resulted in an array of intriguing compounds (Figure 1). MacDonald and co-workers described cation 1a+ obtained by reacting PCl3 with a carbene as a reducing reagent.[1a] Also starting from PCl3, Robinson and co-workers reported the phosphoranide derivative 1b, in which the P atom is hypercoordinated.[1b] Upon reduction of 1b, 2, 3-diphosphabutadiene 2 is obtained in which the P atoms are two-coordinate.[1c] This compound was oxidized to 32+ by Bertrand [2] illustrating that imidazoliumyl substituents not only serve well for the stabilization of low-and hypercoordinated P atoms but also for the preparation of cations. We previously demonstrated that related organophosphorus cations show remarkable stability, for example, through the isolation of diazido PIII cation 4+.[3] Additionally, the intriguing reactivity of certain phosphanyl-substituted imidazolium ions has been discussed. For example, treatment of 5 [Cl] with KHMDS results in the migration of the phosphanyl substituent to the 4 position of the imidazolium ring to give 6a (Scheme 1).[4] Furthermore, we recently reported on the reduction of cation 7+ to compound 8+ in which a dicationic diphosphane acts as a chelating Lewis acid toward a chloride anion (Scheme 1).[5] The above-mentioned examples are either described as donor–acceptor complexes of NHC ligands and the respective P-centered moiety or as imidazoliumyl-substituted Pcompounds that bear a positive charge on the imidazoliumyl substituent. Haaland [6] provides a general conceptual basis to describe such bonding environments, and thus, the latter model appears to be more realistic for us and is used throughout this paper. Independent of any such controversy, however, the imidazoliumyl substituents in the above compounds serve well for at least three purposes. First, they help to stabilize low-as well as hypercoordinated Patoms.[7] Second, they are advantageous for the stabilization of cations through delocalization of the positive charge.[7] Third, they serve to reduce the nucleophilicity of a directly bonded PIII atom, thus limiting decomposition pathways and rendering the molecules interesting electron-poor ligands for transitionmetal catalysis.[7, 8]In this context, we were interested in the reactivity of cation 7+. Herein, we report on the reaction of salts of 7+ with an NHC, the formation of a remarkably stable, rare example of a cationic derivative of a phosphoranide, and investigations of its follow-up chemistry, including the preparation of a phosphanide cation and cationic phosphanido complexes of coinage metals.