Bond Formation Reactions to Phosphorus Using an Electrophilic Phosphinidene Complex
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BOND FORMATION REACTIONS TO PHOSPHORUS USING AN ELECTROPHILIC PHOSPHINIDENE COMPLEX A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry University of Regina By Kandasamy Vaheesar Regina, Saskatchewan September, 2013 Copyright 2013: K. Vaheesar UNIVERSITY OF REGINA FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH SUPERVISORY AND EXAMINING COMMITTEE Kandasamy Vaheesar, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, has presented a thesis titled, Bond Formation Reactions to Phosphorus Using an Electrophilic Phosphinidene Complex, in an oral examination held on August 28, 2013. The following committee members have found the thesis acceptable in form and content, and that the candidate demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of the subject material. External Examiner: *Dr. Stephen Foley, University of Saskatchewan Supervisor: Dr. Brian Sterenberg, Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry Committee Member: Dr. Mauricio Barbi, Department of Physics Committee Member: Dr. Allan East, Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry Committee Member: Dr. R. Scott Murphy, Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry Chair of Defense: Dr. Dongyan Blachford, Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research *Participated via Video Conference ABSTRACT Electrophilic phosphinidene complexes play a central role in organophosphorus chemistry. The chemistry of transient phosphinidene complexes has been well studied, but stable, cationic phosphinidene complexes are not as well understood. Therefore the i + 5 reactivity of a cationic phosphinidene complex [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] (Cp = η - cyclopentadienyl, iPr = isopropyl), toward bond activation, cycloaddition and nucleophilic addition has been examined. i + The complex [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] reacts with primary, secondary, and tertiary i + silanes to form the silyl phosphine complexes [CpFe(CO)2{P(H)(SiR3)N Pr2}] (SiR3 = SiPhH2, SiPh2H, Si(C2H5)3), in which the phosphinidene has inserted into the Si-H bond. A computational study shows that the insertion is concerted. The same phosphinidene complex reacts with HPPh2 to form the phosphine-coordinated phosphinidene complex i + [CpFe(CO)2{P(PHPh2)N Pr2}] , which rearranges to the phosphino-phosphine complex i + i + [CpFe(CO)2{P(PPh2)(H)N Pr2}] . Reaction of [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] with H2 at high i + pressure leads to the primary phosphine complex [CpFe(CO)2{PH2(N Pr2)}] . i + The phosphinidene complex [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] reacts with alkenes and alkynes via (1+2) cycloaddition to form phosphiranes and phosphirenes respectively. Conjugated alkenes react to initially form phosphiranes, which rearrange to phospholenes via a [1+3] sigmatropic shift. Reaction with an α, β unsaturated ketone gives an oxo-3- phospholene complex. Reaction with azobenzene forms a benzodiazophosphole via C-H activation. Addition of HCl or HBF4·O(CH3CH2)2 to the phosphirene and benzodiazophosphole complexes results in P-N bond cleavage, yielding the respective i chlorophosphorus heterocyclic complexes. The heterocycles can be removed from the metal complexes by addition of trimethylphosphine or triethylphosphine. i + The phosphinidene complex [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] , reacts with trialkylphos- phines to form the phosphine-coordinated phosphinidene complexes [CpFe(CO)2- i + {P(PR3)N Pr2] (R = CH3, C2H5, C4H9). Phosphines act as a protecting group and allow amine cleavage via reaction with HBF4·O(CH3CH2)2 to form phosphine-coordinated chlorophosphinidene complexes. The resulting chloro group can be displaced by an additional phosphine, leading to novel bisphosphoniophosphido complexes 2+ + [CpFe(CO)2{P(PR3)}] , which rapidly dissociates to form [PR3-P-PR3] . Reaction of i + [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] with bis(dimethylphosphino)methane forms [CpFe(CO)- i 2 1 4 + {P(N Pr2)P(Me2)CH2P(Me2)-κ P ,P }] . P-N cleavage of the bridging complex i 2 1 4 + [CpFe(CO){P(N Pr2)P(Me2)CH2P(Me2)-κ P ,P }] with HCl leads to [CpFe(CO)- 2 1 4 + {P(Cl)P(Me2)CH2P(Me2)-κ P ,P }] . Phosphine addition to [CpFe(CO){P(Cl)- 2 1 4 + P(Me2)CH2P(Me2)-κ P ,P }] gives the bisphosphoniophosphido complex [CpFe(CO)- 2 1 4 2+ {P(PR3)P(Me2)CH2P(Me2)-κ P ,P }] , which is stable to dissociation. i + The reactivity studies of [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] have shown that it can be used to activate non-polar bonds like Si-H, P-H and H-H to form P-Si, P-P and P-H bonds, but is i + not electrophilic enough to activate C-H bonds. [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] undergoes cycloaddition reactions with a wide range of unsaturated substrates leading to phosphorus heterocycles, and shows the typical reactivity expected for electrophilic phosphinidene complexes. Novel complexes with P-P-P ligands and P-P bonds have been formed via i + phosphine addition reactions of [CpFe(CO)2{PN Pr2}] . ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Brian Sterenberg for his guidance, valuable advice and support throughout this study, and help in writing thesis. I am most grateful to the members of the thesis supervisory committee, Dr. Lynn Mihichuk, Dr. Scott Murphy, Dr. Allan East, and Dr. Mauricio Barbi for their suggestions and advice. It is my pleasure to thank Prof. Doug Stephan, University of Toronto, for giving me an opportunity to work in his lab and Dr. Renan Cariou who supported me during my stay at the University of Toronto. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Bob McDonald and Dr. Mike Ferguson of University of Alberta for X-ray data collection, Dr. Wayne Moffat (University of Alberta) for elemental analysis, Dr. Ron Treble for GC/MS analysis and Dr. Chuanzhong Wang for troubleshooting the NMR spectrometer whenever needed. I thank Tim Bolton, Colin Kuntz, Rakesh Rajagopalan and Arumugam Jayaraman for their support in the lab. I would like to acknowledge the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Regina and National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (discovery grant to Sterenberg) for financial assistance. At last but not least I wish to thank my wife, Kamalini, and children, Suthan and Thanu, for their encouragement and fullest support to achieve my long term goal. Their patience and soothing words were my driving force. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract……………………………………………………….………………………….i Acknowledgements………………………………………………….…………………..iii Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………..iv List of Tables……………………………………………………………………...……..x List of Figures…………………………………………………………………………...xi List of Abbreviations ………………………………………………………………….xiii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1 1.1 Phosphorus ................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Organophosphorus compounds ................................................................................. 1 1.3 The phosphorus-carbon analogy ............................................................................... 3 1.4 Phosphinidenes ......................................................................................................... 4 1.4.1 Bonding in phosphinidenes ................................................................................ 6 1.4.2 Generation of phosphinidenes............................................................................ 7 1.5 Phosphinidene complexes ......................................................................................... 9 1.5.1 Nucleophilic phosphinidene complexes ............................................................ 9 1.5.2 Electrophilic phosphinidene complexes .......................................................... 11 1.6 Characteristic reactions of phosphinidene complexes ............................................ 18 1.6.1 Characteristic reactions of electrophilic phosphinidene complexes ................ 18 1.7 Rationale of the study ............................................................................................. 20 1.8 Scope of the study ................................................................................................... 22 iv CHAPTER 2: BOND ACTIVATION REACTIONS OF ELECTROPHILIC PHOSPHINIDENE COMPLEXES ............................................................................... 24 2.1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 24 2.1.1 Bond activation reactions ................................................................................. 24 2.1.2 Bond activation by electrophilic phosphinidene complexes ............................ 25 2.2 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ............................................................................. 32 2.2.1 Preparation of iron aminophosphinidene complex .......................................... 32 2.2.2 Si-H activation reactions of iron aminophosphinidene complex ..................... 32 2.2.3 P-H activation reaction of iron aminophosphinidene complex........................ 39 2.2.4 H-H activation reaction of iron phosphinidene complex ................................. 41 2.2.5 Computational Studies of Si-H and H-H Activations ...................................... 43 2.3 CONCLUSIONS..................................................................................................... 48 2.4 EXPERIMENTAL .................................................................................................. 49 2.4.1 General Comments..........................................................................................