Stereoselective addition of diphenylphosphine to substituted diphenylethynes: synthetic, NMR and X-ray crystallographic studies

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Jonathan L. Bookham, Darren M. Smithies, Anna Wright, Mark Thornton-Pett and William McFarlane


Abstract

The base-catalysed addition of diphenylphosphine to the substituted diphenylethynes RC[triple bond, length half m-dash]CR′ (R = Ph, R′ = Ph, o-tolyl, m-tolyl or 2-biphenyl; R = m-tolyl, R′ = o-tolyl or m-tolyl) yielded Ph2PC(R)[double bond, length half m-dash]CHR′ and/or Ph2PCH(R)CH(R′)PPh2. Proton, 13C, 13P and two-dimensional rotating frame Overhauser enhancement 1H NMR spectra have been used to determine the stereochemical pathways of the reactions and the stereochemistry of the products. In general the more hindered alkynes undergo monoaddition ultimately to yield phosphinoalkenes with the Ph2P attached to the carbon bearing the least bulky substituent and cis to the olefinic proton, while for the less hindered alkynes the trans isomer is formed initially and this then reacts further to give meso/erythro-diphosphinoalkanes. Bis(o-tolyl)ethyne does not react with Ph2PH under the same conditions. Crystal structures were determined for E- and Z-Ph2P(Ph)C[double bond, length half m-dash]CHPh and show distortions of interbond angles consistent with the pattern of strain implied by the foregoing reactions. The sulfides of the phosphinoalkenes and the Mo(CO)4 complexes of the diphosphinoalkanes were also prepared and their 1H, 13C and 31P NMR spectra recorded. In several cases the pattern of 13CO NMR signals for the complexes was used unambiguously to determine the stereochemistry of the parent diphosphines.


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