Enhancing the reactivity of 1,2-diphospholes in cycloaddition reactions

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Two different approaches have been employed to enhance the reactivity of 1-alkyl-1,2-diphospholes - the introduction of electronwithdrawing groups either at the phosphorus atoms or in the para-position of the arene ring. The alkylation of sodium 1,2-diphospha-3,4,5-triphenylcyclopentadienide with alkyl halides Hal-CH2-R (R = CN, COOEt, OMe, CH2OEt) results in corresponding 1-alkyl-3,4,5-triphenyl-1,2-diphospholes (alkyl = CH2CN (1a), CH2COOEt (1b), CH2OMe (1c), and (CH2)2OEt (1d)), which spontaneously undergo the intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions at room temperature to form the mixture of the cycloadducts, 2a-c, respectively. However the alkylation of sodium 1,2-diphospha-3,4,5-tri(p-fluorophenyl)cyclopentadienide with ethyl iodide leads to stable 1-ethyl-3,4,5-tris(p-fluorophenyl)-1,2-diphosphole (1e), which forms the [4 + 2] cycloadduct 2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexa(p-fluorophenyl)-1-ethyl-1,7,7a-triphospha-4,7-(ethylphosphinidene)indene (2e) only upon heating up to 60 °C. With further heating to 120 °C with N-phenylmaleimide, the cycloadducts 2a-c and 2e undergo the retro-Diels-Alder reaction and form only one product of the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction 3a-c, 3e with good yields up to 65%.

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Zagidullin, A., Miluykov, V., Oshchepkova, E., Tufatullin, A., Kataeva, O., & Sinyashin, O. (2015). Enhancing the reactivity of 1,2-diphospholes in cycloaddition reactions. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 11, 169–173. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.11.17

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