Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry investigations of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) produced by monoacylphosphine oxide photoinitiation

The chain-end-group composition was determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analyses of low-molecular-weight polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) produced by free-radical polymerization with a monoacylphosphine oxide, (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) diphenylphosphine oxide (TPO), as a photoinitiator. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) fractionation of the PS and PMMA samples with initial polydispersities of 1.81 and 2.81, respectively, yielded improved MALDI-TOF MS spectra. Spectral analyses of the PS fractions showed distributions attributable to PS having two diphenylphosphinyl ends and PS having one diphenylphosphinyl end and/or one 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl end, indicating that a combination of PS radicals with the highly reactive diphenylphosphine oxide group at one end of the chains was the predominant mode of termination. MALDI-TOF MS results for PMMA fractions provided evidence for termination primarily by disproportionation, but structure determination was confounded by the presence of isobaric peaks. Discernible peaks were obtained by MALDI-TOF MS analyses of GPC fractions of TPO-initiated poly(methyl-d₃ methacrylate-d₅), in which the major product was PMMA with a diphenylphosphinyl end group and an abstracted deuterium end group, whereas the minor combination product had two diphenylphosphinyl chain ends. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 2161–2171, 2007     

Synthesis of new ruthenium(II) complexes derived from labile nitrile ligands: an alternative route to the preparation of trans-dichlorotetrakis(diphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II)

New ruthenium(II) complexes containing labile nitrile ligands have been prepared by treatment of either the polymer [{RuCl₂(COD)}_x] (COD = cycloocta-1,5-diene) (1) or its derivative [RuCl₂(COD)(NCCH₃)₂]·NCCH₃ (2) with the appropriate nitrile ligands in refluxing acetonitrile under argon. A new route to synthesis of trans-dichlorotetrakis(diphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II) (7) was also reported. A redetermination of the structure of 7 was undertaken and X-ray crystallographic data revealed that the complex crystallizes in the triclinic space group P-1 with unit cell dimensions a = 12.7016(9) Å, b = 13.0847(10) Å, c = 14.1498(10) Å, α = 101.46(3)°, V = 2080.6(3) Å³, Z = 2 and R = 0.0309. Its polymorph 7′ was also obtained. The crystal structure of 4 was also determined. This complex crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with unit cell dimensions a = 27.0510(3) Å, b = 11.0984(13) Å, c = 13.0450(16) Å, α = 90°, V = 3886.5(8) Å³, Z = 8 and R = 0.0282.     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Tetranuclear Cu(Ⅰ) Complex with Vinyfidenebis(diphenylphosphine)

The vinylidenebis(diphenylphosphine) (vdpp) reacts with CuBr to give a tetranuclear complex, [Cu4(μ3-Br)2(μ2-Br)2(μ2-vdpp)2(CH3CN)2]·(CH3CN)2 1. The title complex has crystallo-graphically imposed centrosymmetry and presents a Cu4Br4 core with distorted stair-like structure. All copper(Ⅰ) atoms in 1 assume distorted tetrahedral coordination geometry. The distance of 2.7745(11) A between the two copper centers indicates the presence of ligand-supported Cu…Cu interactions. Crystal data for 1: C60H56Br4Cu4N4P4, Mr = 1530.77, triclinic, space group P1, a = 11.6593(9), b = 11.7181(9), c = 13.8711(11) A, α = 110.1020(10), ,β = 102.0050(10), γ = 109.8040(10)°, V = 1557.5(2) A3, Z = 1, Dc = 1.632 g/cm3, F(000) = 760, λ = 0.71073 A, T = 298(2) K, 2θmax = 50.04°,μ = 4.056 mm-1, S = 1.181, R = 0.0507 and wR = 0.1025.     

Chemoselective coupling of peptide fragments using the Staudinger ligation

Here we report the first Staudinger ligations which yield tetra- and pentapeptides starting from N-terminal α-azido peptides and C-terminal peptideo-(diphenylphosphine)phenyl esters. Mass spectrometric analysis of the reaction mixture provided a better insight into the mechanism of the Staudinger ligation and has been used to explain the observed intermediates and to optimize the ligation reaction. As a result, the optimized reaction enables the chemoselective coupling of peptides containing amino acids other than glycine at the ligation site.     

Dioxaborinanes with an exocyclic phosphino group

The reaction of diphenylphosphine with o-hydroxy aromatic aldehydes and a diphenylboric acid ester in the presence of tertiary amines gave ammonium 5,6-benzo-and 5,6-naphtho-4-diphenylphosphoryl-2,2-diphenyl-1, 3-dioxa-2-boratacyclohexanes. The borylation of (,2-dihydroxybenzyl)diphenylphosphine, generated in situ, with isobutyl phenylborate gave 5,6-benzo-4-diphenylphosphino-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxa-2-boracyclohexane, which, in contrast to 1,3,2,5-dioxa-boraphosphorinanes, has a high reactivity with respect to electrophilic and nucleophilic reagents and adds oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and pyridine to give the corresponding derivatives.A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 420083 Kazan. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 196–200, January, 1992.     

Synthesis and Heterocyclization of β-Aroyl-α-diphenylphosphorylpropionic Acids

It has been established that diphenylphosphine oxide reacts smoothly with -aroylacrylic acids with the formation of -aroyl--diphenylphosphorylpropionic acids, which were cyclized under the action of hydroxylamine, hydrazine hydrate, and phenylhydrazine hydrochloride into phospho derivatives of dihydrooxazinone and tetrahydropyridazinone respectively. It was shown that imidazole may serve as nucleophilic protection for the synthesis of dihydropyridazinone derivatives from -aroylacrylic acids.