A family of cis-macrocyclic diphosphines: modular, stereoselective synthesis and application in catalytic CO₂/ethylene Coupling
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Beetstra, Dirk
Al-Nezari, Abdulaziz
Al-Bahily, Khalid
Knopf, Ioana
Tofan, Daniel
Cummins, Christopher C
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October 2016
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Chemical Science
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Knopf, Ioana et al. “A family of cis-macrocyclic diphosphines: modular, stereoselective synthesis and application in catalytic CO₂/ethylene Coupling.” Chemical Science 8, 2 (2017): 1463–1468 © 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Abstract
A family of cis-macrocyclic diphosphines was prepared in just three steps from white phosphorus and commercial materials using a modular synthetic approach. Alkylation of bicyclic diphosphane 3,4,8,9-tetramethyl-1,6-diphosphabicyclo(4.4.0)deca-3,8-diene, or P₂(dmb)₂ , produced phosphino-phosphonium salts [R-P₂(dmb)₂]X, where R is methyl, benzyl and isobutyl, in yields of 90-96%. Treatment of these salts with organolithium or Grignard reagents yielded symmetric and unsymmetric macrocyclic diphosphines of the form cis-1-R-6-R′-3,4,8,9-tetramethyl-2,5,7,10-tetrahydro-1,6-DiPhospheCine, or R,R′-DPC, in which R′ is methyl, cyclohexyl, phenyl or mesityl, in yields of 46-94%. Alternatively, symmetric diphosphine Cy₂-DPC was synthesized in 74% yield from the dichlorodiphosphine Cl₂P₂(dmb)₂. As a first application, these cis-macrocyclic diphosphines were used as ligands in the nickel-catalyzed synthesis of acrylate from CO₂ and ethylene, for which they showed promising catalytic activity.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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