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My PhD dissertation - Institut Fresnel

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To prepare tertiary phosphines bearing two different types of alkyl substituents,<br />

the choice of dichloro-N,N-diethylaminophosphine<br />

[ ] 147 as starting material was found to<br />

be the most judicious. As a matter of fact, the use of organometallic reagents to selectively<br />

substitute one or two chlorine atoms from phosphorus trichloride resulted, in most cases,<br />

in a mixture of mono-, di- and trisubstituted phosphines. On the contrary, at low<br />

temperature it was possible to treat dichloro-N,N-diethylaminophosphine with two<br />

equivalents of an alkyllithium or alkylmagnesium reagent without any P-N bond cleavage,<br />

affording a series of dialkyl-N,N-diethylaminophosphines 24a - 24d with moderate to<br />

excellent yield (Table 2).<br />

PCl 3<br />

HNEt 2, DEE<br />

- 75 °C to 25 °C<br />

Cl<br />

P<br />

N Cl<br />

23, 85%<br />

RLi or RMgX<br />

- 75 °C<br />

R<br />

P<br />

N R<br />

24a - 24d<br />

Table 2. Dialkyl-N,N-diethylaminophosphines R2PN(C2H5)2.<br />

Product R = RLi or RMgX Yield<br />

24a -C(CH3)3 LiC(CH3)3 89%<br />

[ ] 148<br />

24b -C4H9 LiC4H9 88% [147]<br />

24c -C2H5 H5C2MgBr 81% [147]<br />

24d -CH3 LiCH3 49%<br />

Each dialkyl-N,N-diethylaminophosphine of the series 24a - 24d was then<br />

converted to the corresponding chlorophosphines 25a - 25d using a novel efficient<br />

method. Treatment of phosphines 24a - 24d with a 4.8 M hydrogen chloride solution in<br />

diethyl ether rather than with gaseous hydrogen chloride [147] gave<br />

dialkylchlorophosphines 25a - 25d with better yields (Table 3) and a more convenient<br />

work up procedure. Other attempts to prepare 25a - 25d from aminophosphine 23 in a one<br />

pot synthesis gave comparable overall yields, without isolation of the intermediate<br />

dialkylaminophosphines 24a - 24d.<br />

[ ] 149

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