Synthesis of aryldiphenylphosphine oxides by quaternization of tertiary diphenylphosphines with aryl bromides followed by the wittig reaction

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A two-step method for the synthesis of aryldiphenylphosphine oxides from tertiary diphenylphosphines and aryl bromides is developed. The first step is the quaternization of methyldiphenylphosphine or benzyldiphenylphosphine with aryl bromides. This quaternization can be nickel-catalyzed (metal-free in some cases), and tolerate of a variety of functional groups, furnishing quaternary phosphonium salts in 48-90% yields. The second step is Wittig reactions of these quaternary phosphonium salts with furan-2-carbaldehyde or p-chlorobenzaldehyde to provide aryldiphenylphosphine oxides in 27-90% yields. The use of the Wittig reaction for the synthesis of tertiary phosphine oxides is in contrast to its traditional use for the synthesis of olefins, leaving tertiary phosphine oxide as a byproduct. This quaternization-Wittig method can be applied to synthesize aryldiphenylphosphine oxides that are difficult to access by the alkaline hydrolysis of aryltriphenylphosphonium salts, especially those bearing an electron-deficient aryl group. The ligand-coupling mechanism for the alkaline hydrolysis of (p-acylphenyl)triphenylphosphonim salts is also discussed.

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Huang, W., & Zhong, C. H. (2020). Synthesis of aryldiphenylphosphine oxides by quaternization of tertiary diphenylphosphines with aryl bromides followed by the wittig reaction. ACS Omega, 5(26), 16010–16020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c01413

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