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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.

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