Nontrigonal constraint enhances 1,2-addition reactivity of phosphazenes.

Autor: Lin YC; Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA . Email: radosevich@mit.edu., Gilhula JC; Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA . Email: radosevich@mit.edu., Radosevich AT; Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA . Email: radosevich@mit.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical science [Chem Sci] 2018 Apr 06; Vol. 9 (18), pp. 4338-4347. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Apr 06 (Print Publication: 2018).
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc00929e
Abstrakt: The syntheses and 1,2-addition reactivities of nontrigonal phosphazenes supported by trianionic tricoordinating chelates of the type L 3 P[double bond, length as m-dash]Ndipp ( 3 : L 3 = N[CHC( t Bu)O] 2 3- ; 4 : L 3 = N( o -NMeC 6 H 4 ) 2 3- ; dipp = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) are reported. These compounds are characterized by multinuclear NMR and single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments. Distorted phosphazenes 3 and 4 are shown to add B-H, B-O, and Si-H bonds across the formal P[double bond, length as m-dash]N double bond, and their reactivities are contrasted with acyclic analogues. Derivatives of phosphazene 3 bearing sterically unencumbered N -substitutents readily dimerize to form the corresponding cyclodiphosphazanes; compounds with sterically demanding N -substituents are interconvertible between their monomeric and dimeric forms. The enhanced electrophilicity of the phosphorus center in nontrigonal phosphazenes 3 and 4 is rationalized by DFT calculations. Gas phase fluoride ion affinities are computed to be markedly higher for distorted phosphazenes, while proton affinities are largely unaffected by geometric distortion. These results are interpreted to suggest that distortion from pseudotetrahedral geometry results in stabilization of the P-based LUMO, while HOMO energies are essentially unchanged.
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