Lithium-aluminate-catalyzed hydrophosphination applications

Pollard, Victoria A. and Young, Allan and McLellan, Ross and Kennedy, Alan R. and Tuttle, Tell and Mulvey, Robert E. (2019) Lithium-aluminate-catalyzed hydrophosphination applications. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (35). pp. 12291-12296. ISSN 1521-3773 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201906807)

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Abstract

Synthesized, isolated, and characterized by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopic studies, lithium phosphidoaluminate iBu3AlPPh2Li(THF)3 has been tested as a catalyst for hydrophosphination of alkynes, alkenes, and carbodiimides. Based on the collective evidence of stoichiometric reactions, NMR monitoring studies, kinetic analysis, and DFT calculations, a mechanism involving deprotonation, alkyne insertion and protonolysis is proposed for the [iBu3AlHLi]2 aluminate-catalyzed hydrophosphination of alkynes with diphenylphosphine. This study enhances further the development of transition metal free, atom economical homogeneous catalysis using common sustainable main group metals.

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Pollard, Victoria A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9149-3458, Young, Allan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1525-4703, McLellan, Ross ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-0258, Kennedy, Alan R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-6015, Tuttle, Tell and Mulvey, Robert E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1015-2564;