Superbasic bridgehead diphosphines:: the effects of strain and intrabridgehead P•••P bonding on phosphine basicity

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Alder, RW
Butts, CP
Orpen, AG
Read, D
Oliva, JM
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[1] Univ Bristol, Sch Chem, Bristol BS8 1TS, Avon, England
[2] CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Barcelona, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2 | 2001年 / 03期
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10.1039/b008903f
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O62 [有机化学];
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070303 ; 081704 ;
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The basicity order in acetonitrile for a series of phosphines is: 1,5-diphosphabicyclo[3.3.3]undecane 1 (pK(a) for the protonated ion similar to 17.9) < 1,6-diphosphabicyclo[4.3.3]dodecane 2 (pK(a) similar to 22.5) < 1,6-diphosphabicyclo[4.4.3]tridecane 3 (pK(a) 27.8). The latter is therefore comparable to Schwesinger's P-1-t-Bu base but still significantly weaker than Verkade's proazaphosphatrane bases. The pK(a) for the protonated ion of 1,6-diphosphabicyclo[4.4.4]tetradecane 4 could not be determined due to rearrangement probably caused by preferred deprotonation at alpha -carbon. However, the X-ray structure of 4H . PF6 ((1)J(PP) 178 Hz) shows an in,out structure with a P . . .P distance of 2.58 Angstrom, indicative of significant bonding. Diphosphines 2 and 3 protonate to give in,out-2H(+) ((1)J(PP) 251 Hz) and in,out-3H(+) ((1)J(PP) 253 Hz), but 1H(+) shows no P-P coupling and is believed to be out,out. Proton affinities (PA) for the bridgehead diphosphines have been calculated at the B3LYP/6-31G* level: 1, 1001, 2, 1040, 3, 1085, and 4, 1105 kJ mol(-1) and are compared with PA[(t-Bu)(3)P] = 1028 kJ mol(-1). All the bridgehead diphosphines are strongly flattened and the question of how much this may contribute to their enhanced basicity, in addition to the effect of intrabridgehead bonding, is discussed.
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