Convenient preparation of bifunctional pybox ligands

Starting from a common easily available pybox derivative, chiral ditopic ligands with pendant Lewis basic sites consisting of amine or phosphine oxide functions attached in the 4-positions of the oxazoline rings were prepared by simple synthetic procedures. From the same pybox derivative, a macrocyclic ligand containing a diaza-18-crown-6-ether ring linked via triazole groups was obtained employing ‘click’ chemistry.     

Markovnikov hydroformylation catalyzed by ROPAC in the presence of phosphine and phosphine oxide ligands

Rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of 1-octene in the presence of different phosphine and phosphine oxide ligands has been investigated. The molecular structure of new phosphine ligand, fluorenylidine methyl phenyl diphenylphosphine, was determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Parameters such as different ligands, molar ratio of ligand to rhodium complex, ratio of olefin to rhodium complex, pressure of CO : H₂ mixture, and time of the reaction were studied. The linear aldehyde was the main product when the phosphine ligands were used as auxiliary ligands while the selectivity was changed to the branched products when the related phosphine oxide ligands were used. Under optimized reaction conditions, in the presence of [Rh(acac)(CO)(Ph₃P)]-di(1-naphthyl)phenyl phosphine oxide, conversion of 1-octene reached 97% with 87% selectivity of branched aldehyde.     

Calixarenes functionalized with phosphine oxide and diamide functions as extractants and ionofores for rare-earth metals

Calixarene-based ligands with phosphine oxide and diamide functions at wide and narrow rims are synthesized and studied as extracting agents for liquid extraction and ionophores for polymeric electrochemical ion sensors. Calixarene ligands are compared with corresponding phosphine oxide and diamide ligands which are not attached to the calixarene platform. Extraction and sensor properties of the ligands were studied in different metal ion solution with special attention paid to rare-earth metals. Attachment of phosphine oxide groups to the calixarene platform leads to the sharp increase of both extraction and sensing ability of the corresponding systems comparing to non-bonded phosphine oxide. In case of the diamide derivatives attached to the calixarene performance of corresponding ligands was similar to those of non-bonded diamides.     

手性膦配体的合成及其在不对称催化反应中的应用研究进展

手性膦配体的合成及其在不对称催化反应中的应用一直是不对称有机合成和催 化研究中非常重要的研究领域，大量的单齿、双齿和多齿磷配体被合成出来并成功 地应用于不对称催化研究。综述了近十几年来手性磷配体的研究进展。     

膦配体电子和空间效应对钯催化羰化酯化反应的影响

膦配体修饰的钯催化剂在不饱和化合物羰化酯化反应中使用广泛,其催化活性在很大程度上取决于金属周围的配体环境。膦配体电子和空间效应的调变,可以实现定向催化,甚至可以预测催化行为。新催化反应的开发和现有催化反应的优化都可以通过膦配体的合理设计来实现。配体已经是成为公认的最重要的需要详细研究的变量之一。本文综述了钯催化烯烃羰化酯化反应中,单齿膦配体、双齿膦配体、半稳定膦配体电子和空间效应对活性和选择性的调控作用,并对面临的问题和未来的发展方向进行了探讨,以期对未来设计高效高选择性羰化酯化反应催化体系提供指导。     

A Novel Convenient Method to Synthesize Unsymmetrical 1,1′-Disubstituted Ferrocenes Consisting of Various Phosphino,Thiolato and Pyridyl Substituents

A novel convenient method for preparing unsymmetrical 1,1′-disubstituted ferrocenyl phosphine ligands by using the readily accessible 1,1′-dibromoferrocene as a precursor is described. The method is of interest for modifying the chelating ferrocenyl phosphine ligands in view of the growing influence of homogeneous catalysis in organic synthesis, manipulation of materials and production of high optical yield.     

Rhodium(I) Tristyrylphosphine Cyclooctadiene Complexes

Rhodium complexes with unsaturated phosphines as ligands were studied by NMR spectroscopy. Tris[(E,Z,Z)-styryl)phosphine is a stronger complex-forming agent compared with tris[(Z,Z,Z)-styryl)phosphine in view of the easier accessibility of its lone electron pair. The composition of the complexes and their NMR parameters suggest a square-planar structure with cis phosphine ligands.     

Phosphine‐Directed CH Borylation Reactions: Facile and Selective Access to Ambiphilic Phosphine Boronate Esters

Ambiphilic ligands have received considerable attention over the last two decades due to their unique reactivity as organocatalysts and ligands. The iridium‐catalyzed C? H borylation of phosphines is described in which the phosphine is used as a directing group to provide selective formation of arylboronate esters with unique scaffolds of ambiphilic compounds. A variety of aryl and benzylic phosphines were subjected to the reaction conditions, selectively providing stable, isolable boronate esters upon protection of the phosphine as the borane complex. After purification, the phosphine‐substituted boronate esters could be deprotected and isolated in pure form.     

Phosphorus derivatives of carboranes as ligands for Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Carborane-containing phosphine ligands having different steric and electronic properties were synthesized. Testing of these ligands in the Pd-catalyzed Suzuki—Miyaura reaction showed higher catalytic activity for sterically congested phosphine ligands with acceptor carborane substituents.     

En route to the formation of high-efficiency, osmium(II)-based phosphorescent materials

Triosmium cluster complexes [Os3(CO)8(fppz)2] (2a) and [Os3(CO)8(fptz)2] (2b) bearing two 2-pyridyl azolate ligands were synthesized in an attempt to establish the reaction mechanism that gives rise to the blue-emitting phosphorescent complexes [Os(CO)2(fppz)2] (1a) and [Os(CO)2(fptz)2] (1b) [(fppz)H = 3-(trifluoromethyl)-5-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole; (fptz)H = 3-(trifluoromethyl)-5-(2-pyridyl)triazole]. X-ray structural analysis of 2b showed an open triangular metal framework incorporating multisite-coordinated 2-pyridyltriazolate ligands. Treatment of 2 with the respective 2-pyridylazolate ligand led to the formation of blue-emitting complex 1b, confirming their intermediacy, while the reaction of 2b with phosphine ligand PPh2Me afforded two hitherto novel hydride complexes 3 and 4, for which the reversible interconversion was clearly established at higher temperatures (> 180 degrees C). The single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses of 3 and 4 confirmed their monometallic and isomeric nature, together with the coordination of two phosphine ligands located in the trans-disposition and one CO and one hydride located opposite to the pyridyl triazolate chelate. Subtle differences in photophysical properties were examined for isomers 3 and 4 on the basis of steady state absorption and emission, the relaxation dynamics, and temperature-dependent luminescent studies. The results, in combination with time-dependent density function theory (TDDFT) calculations, provide fundamental insights into the future design and preparation of highly efficient phosphorescent emitters.     

Efficient palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids using benzoferrocenyl phosphines as supporting ligands

Four monodentate benzoferrocenyl phosphines were studied as supporting ligands in palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids. Of these ligands, the more electron-rich and steric demanding benzoferrocenyl dicyclohexyl phosphine was found highly effective for the reaction followed by the benzoferrocenyl diisopropyl phosphine. The corresponding diethyl and diphenyl phosphines are much less active. When the dicyclohexyl phosphine was used, both electron-rich and electron-poor aryl chlorides were coupled with arylboronic acids within 1 h giving good to excellent yields. Chloro-substituted pyridines were also found highly reactive under these conditions giving excellent yields of biaryl products. Sterically hindered biaryls can also be prepared using the dicyclohexyl phosphine as ligand.     

A very simple, highly stereoselective and modular synthesis of ferrocene-based P-chiral phosphine ligands

A very simple, highly stereoselective and modular synthesis of ferrocene-based P-chiral phosphine ligands has been developed. On the basis of this new methodology, several new families of ferrocene-based phosphine ligands have been prepared coupling chirality at phosphorus with other, more standard stereogenic features. The introduction of P-chirality into ferrocene-based phosphine ligands enhances the enantioselective discrimination produced by the corresponding Rh catalyst when a matching among the planar chirality, carbon chirality, and the chirality of phosphorus is achieved.     

Coordination mode for turn-based phosphine ligands: the origin of selectivity in Pd catalysis

A series of experiments was performed to determine the nature of the catalyst in peptide-derived phosphine ligands. The selectivity of the catalyst system was determined with four ligands that are diastereomeric at the phosphine containing amino acid. Additionally, a series of monophosphine ligands was synthesized and screened to determine if the active catalysts are derived from a phosphine-amide complex.     

Iron catalysis for the synthesis of ligands: Exploring the products of hydrophosphination as ligands in cross-coupling

Catalytic hydrophosphination is a useful technique for the synthesis of phosphines, however, the phosphine products have been little exploited as ligands in catalysis. We have selected three phosphines prepared by iron catalyzed hydrophosphination and used them as ligands in a series of cross-coupling reactions: Heck, Suzuki-Miyaura and Buchwald-Hartwig. Rather than limit the chemistry to simple cross-coupling partners which are almost guaranteed to perform well in these transformations, industrially relevant substrates which are challenging from and electronic and/or steric perspective, along with substrates which contain several heteroatoms, were explored in order to gauge the true potential of these phosphine ligands.     

Phosphine‐Directed C?H Borylation Reactions: Facile and Selective Access to Ambiphilic Phosphine Boronate Esters

Ambiphilic ligands have received considerable attention over the last two decades due to their unique reactivity as organocatalysts and ligands. The iridium‐catalyzed C H borylation of phosphines is described in which the phosphine is used as a directing group to provide selective formation of arylboronate esters with unique scaffolds of ambiphilic compounds. A variety of aryl and benzylic phosphines were subjected to the reaction conditions, selectively providing stable, isolable boronate esters upon protection of the phosphine as the borane complex. After purification, the phosphine‐substituted boronate esters could be deprotected and isolated in pure form.     

A switchable bistable [2]rotaxane based on phosphine oxide functional group

A switchable bistable rotaxane based phosphine oxide functional group-containing macrocycle has been constructed successfully, in which the macrocycle can be easily switched between dibenzylammonium and triazole recognition sites by using the simple base/acid stimuli     

Bisphosphine‐Functionalized Cyclic Decapeptides Based on the Natural Product Gramicidin S: A Potential Scaffold for Transition‐Metal Coordination

The natural product Gramicidin S is a promising scaffold for novel oligopeptide‐based bisphosphine ligands, combining the advantageous rigid chiral backbone with the close proximity of phosphine substituents. The required unnatural, phosphine‐containing, amino acid building blocks were synthesized by means of a novel protocol that involves the enantioselective alkylation of a chiral nickel Schiff base template. Three Ni complexes were prepared with different alkyl chains between the phosphine group and the α‐carbon atom of the incorporated glycine; the absolute stereochemistry of two of them was determined by single‐crystal X‐ray structure analysis. By detaching the template, enantiopure L ‐phosphine amino acids resulted enabling the solid‐phase, stepwise construction of a linear sequence of the phosphine‐modified oligopeptides. On cyclization three bisphosphine‐substituted Gramicidin S analogues resulted, differing only in the size and shape of the linkage between the phosphine groups and the oligopeptides backbone. Their crystal structures suggest these species to have potential as chelating ligands.     

Efficient solid-phase synthesis of peptide-based phosphine ligands: towards combinatorial libraries of selective transition metal catalysts

A new methodology for the solid-phase synthesis of peptide-based phosphine ligands has been developed. Solid supported peptide scaffolds possessing either primary or secondary amines were synthesised using commercially available Fmoc-protected amino acids and readily available Fmoc-protected amino aldehydes for reductive alkylation, in standard solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS). Phosphine moieties were introduced by phosphinomethylation of the free amines as the final solid-phase synthetic step, immediately prior to complexation with palladium(II), thus avoiding tedious protection/deprotection of the phosphine moieties during the synthesis of the ligands. The extensive use of commercial building blocks and standard SPPS makes this methodology well suited for the generation of solid-phase combinatorial libraries of novel ligands. Furthermore, it is possible to generate several different phosphine ligand libraries for every peptide scaffold library synthesised, by functionalising the scaffold libraries with different phosphine moieties. The synthesised ligands were characterised on solid support by conventional (31)P NMR spectroscopy and, cleaved from the support, as their phosphine oxides by HPLC, (1)H NMR, (31)P NMR and high resolution ESMS. Palladium(II) allyl complexes were generated from the resin bound ligands and to demonstrate their catalytic properties, palladium catalysed asymmetric allylic substitution reactions were performed. Good yields and moderate enantioselectivity was obtained for the selected combination of catalysts and substrate, but most importantly the concept of this new methodology was proven. Screening of ligand libraries should afford more selective catalysts.     

Synthesis of Click-Chelator via Cu(I)-Catalyzed Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition

The click‐ligands based on 1,2,3‐triazole and pyridine unit has been synthesized via Cu(I)‐catalyzed alkyne‐azide cycloaddition from corresponding organic azides and terminal alkynes. The ligand structure was characterized by NMR, IR and elemental analysis as well as single crystal diffractions. The single crystal structure of the complexes from two different ligands coordinating to Cu(II) and Co(II) ions indicated that the N(2) atom in 1,2,3‐triazole unit can act as an efficient donor to metals through the rational molecular design.     

Asymmetric hydrogenation of aromatic olefins catalyzed by iridium complexes of proline derived phosphine-oxazoline ligands

The synthesis of a series of phosphine-oxazoline ligands is reported. This ligands are synthesized by reaction of a phosphine chloride with the secondary nitrogen of proline. Upon coordination to iridium the resulting complexes can be used in the asymmetric hydrogenation of simple olefins. The effect of different counter ions and substitution at the oxazoline and the phosphine is reported.