My PhD dissertation - Institut Fresnel
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6<br />
The second part of this work sets out to assess the relative stabilities of several<br />
primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl anions by means of a well known reaction. Hence, by<br />
preparing mixed tetraalkyl phosphonium halides, each one bearing two different type of alkyl<br />
group, and submitting them to alkaline decomposition, one whish to determine kinetic<br />
parameters related to their relative stabilities as probable carbanions. Furthermore, since<br />
expulsion of alkyl groups is assumed to be governed by their relative stability and is proposed<br />
to be stemming from the decomposition of a common transition state in the rate determining<br />
step, the kinetic data provided by this study should legitimately be compared with computed<br />
or gas-phase thermodynamics.<br />
R 1 R 2<br />
P + R<br />
O<br />
1<br />
R2 OH<br />
∆G1 R 1<br />
P<br />
R 2<br />
R 1 R 2<br />
X<br />
OH<br />
R 1 R 2<br />
P<br />
R O 1<br />
Several research groups previously evaluated the ease of anion expulsion by<br />
analyzing the decomposition products of some tetraaryl or aryl-alkyl mixed phosphonium<br />
salts. Nevertheless, due to the practical difficulty to prepare and handle the majority of trialkyl<br />
phosphorus compounds, very few tetraalkyl phosphonium salts were studied by this<br />
decomposition reaction<br />
∆G 2<br />
+ R 2<br />
[30, ] 52 . Furthermore, the ratios of phosphine oxides and anions<br />
expulsed were generally measured either by direct isolation of the oxides or by gas<br />
chromatography analysis of the products in case of tetraaryl or aryl-alkyl mixed phosphonium<br />
salts only. In the former case, the lack of accuracy only afforded a broad idea of the relative<br />
anions stability [29, 30, 52] . In the latter, useful and accurate data were obtained about aryl anions<br />
basicity [36] . In this context, the present study attends to provide accurate data concerning the<br />
alkaline decomposition of tetraalkylphosphonium salts and the deduced kinetic basicities of<br />
primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl anions.<br />
Finally, the object of this present task is to propose a novel access to atropisomeric<br />
biphenylbisphosphine ligands for asymmetric catalysis. The first goal of this new synthetic<br />
approach is to provide a general method that allows easy tuning of the ligands produced.<br />
Having become readily accessible, 2,2',6,6'-tetrabromobiphenyl<br />
[ ] 53 appeared to be a judicious<br />
key intermediate. As a matter of fact, by taking advantage of the modern organometallic<br />
techniques developed and inspired by the recent work of F. Leroux<br />
[ ] 54 , it was possible to<br />
subject this substrate to successive permutational halogen/metal exchanges [45, 46] in order to<br />
allow diverse functionalizations.