III IIII US005536880A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,536,880 Sugiya Et Al
III IIII US005536880A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,536,880 Sugiya et al. 45) Date of Patent: Jul. 16, 1996 (54) MONOALKYLPHOSPHINE AND METHOD Primary Examiner-Paul J. Killos OF PRODUCING THE SAME Attorney, Agent, or Firm–Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, 75) Inventors: Masashi Sugiya; Seiji Shimura, both Maier & Neustadt of Tokyo, Japan 73) Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd., (57) ABSTRACT Tokyo, Japan A monoalkylphosphine represented by the following for mula (1): (21) Appl. No.: 359,821 22 Filed: Dec. 20, 1994 (H, CH, gh (1) 30 Foreign Application Priority Data H CH,- CH-i-CH, (-CH H CH3 PH2 CH3 Dec. 24, 1993 (JP) Japan .................................... 5-329005 Dec. 24, 1993 (JP Japan .................................... 5-329006 wherein m indicates 1 or 2, and n indicates an integer of 0 (51) Int. Cl. ............................................. C07F 9/50 to 2. The monoalkylphosphine can effectively be obtained by reaction between phosphine and an alkene in the presence (52) U.S. Cl. ................................................................... 568/8 of an organic solvent and an anhydrous alkanesulfonic acid (58) Field of Search .................................................... 568/8 catalyst. 56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,354,918 10/1994 Ohsaki et al. .............................. 568/8 8 Claims, No Drawings 5,536,880 1. 2 MONOALKYLPHOSPHINE AND METHOD an intermediate of functional organic phosphorus com OF PRODUCING THE SAME pounds in consideration of the above-described facts, the inventors found a novel monoalkylphosphine compound. The inventors also found that a high yield of high-purity BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION monoalkylphosphine can be obtained without dialkylphos 1. Field of the Invention phine and trialkylphosphine by reaction of phosphine and an The present invention relates to a novel monoalkylphos alkene in the presence of an organic solvent and anhydrous phine, and particularly, to a novel monoalkylphosphine alkanesulfonic acid as a catalyst.
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