ChemComm View Article Online COMMUNICATION View Journal | View Issue Simple access to ionic liquids and organic salts containing the phosphaethynolate (PCOÀ) and Cite this: Chem. Commun., 2016, 3À 52, 11646 Zintl (Sb11 ) anions† Received 11th August 2016, Accepted 20th August 2016 Maximilian Jost, Lars H. Finger, Jo¨rg Sundermeyer* and Carsten von Ha¨nisch* DOI: 10.1039/c6cc06620h www.rsc.org/chemcomm Herein we report the synthesis of the first ionic liquids with the unsubstituted or N-functionalised inorganic urea analogues,12,13 highly reactive and synthetically valuable phosphaethynolate (PCOÀ) andactsasaphosphidetransferreagent.14,15 anion. They are simply synthesised by the reaction of organic The most common route to the PCOÀ anion starts from methylcarbonate salts with P(SiMe3)3. The products are obtained in NaPH2, which is converted under CO pressure or with ethylene- 12 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. near to quantitative yields and they are highly viscous liquids at room carbonate in dimethoxyethane. As the number of ionic synthons temperature or have low melting points for symmetric cations. for PCOÀ was limited to very few inorganic cations our interest Moreover, extending this synthetic strategy towards Sb(SiMe3)3 we was focused on developing a convenient preparation method for + 3À discovered a simple synthesis for [P(nBu)3Me] 3[Sb11] , the first new organic salts containing this anion. It should be mentioned 3À organic cation salt comprising the Zintl-anion [Sb11] . that simple ion exchange in water/methylene chloride or chloro- form typically used in ionic liquid syntheses does not lead to this The first synthesis of the PCOÀ anion goes back to the early class of reactive organic PCO salts in the pure state. In view of the 1990s when Becker et al. isolated the lithium salt bis(1,2-di- first synthesis of the PCOÀ anion, which started from dimethyl methoxyethan-O,O0)lithoxy-methylidinphosphan (Li(OCP)Á2DME) carbonate, the class of methylcarbonate ionic liquids (ILs) This article is licensed under a 1 from the reaction of [LiP(SiMe3)2] with CO(OMe)2. Until lately this attracted our attention. The easily accessible organic methyl- + À anion has attracted little attention, also due to limitations of its carbonate salts [Cat] [OCO2Me] can be prepared via a water synthetic access. This situation changed upon introduction of new and halide free procedure and have proven as versatile starting 16,17 Open Access Article. Published on 22 August 2016. Downloaded 9/24/2019 7:27:58 PM. synthetic procedures by Gru¨tzmacher and coworkers that allow materials for ILs. They were recently employed to synthesise large scale access to sodium and lithium PCO salts.2 Systematic organic salts with hydrochalcogenide and trimethylsilylchalco- investigations in recent years have brought up a fascinating genolate anions, starting from H2E and E(SiMe3)2 (E = S, Se, Te), diversity of PCOÀ anion chemistry: like the homologous pseudo- respectively.18,19 In the latter case the methylcarbonate anion halide NCOÀ,thePCOÀ anion can act as a nucleophile by binding acted not as a Brønsted base, which is its typical reactivity via the oxygen or phosphorous atom. For example, the P-or pattern, but as a nucleophile and a desilylating agent.20 Our O-silylated compounds R3Si–OCP and R3Si–PCO are accessible original motivation was to probe similar desilylation reactions at from the reaction of NaPCO with triorganosilanechlorides or E(SiMe3)3 (E = P, As, Sb) in order to access reactive organic salts À -triflates. In spite of the strong Si–O bond the phosphaketene with E(SiMe3)2 anions. structure is thermodynamically favoured and prevails as the main Subsequently we discovered a method to synthesise purely product.3,4 Besides its use as a ligand in transition metal5,6 and organic salts of the composition [Cat]+[PCO]À with varying actinide complexes,7 the PCOÀ anion can act as a precursor for steric demands of the cation by reacting readily available 4,8 À [2+2] cycloadditions. The groups of Goicoechea and Gru¨tzmacher methylcarbonate precursors with P(SiMe3)3. Many new PCO have developed a diversity of heterocycle forming reactions of the salts were obtained in almost quantitative yields from polar PCOÀ anion with, e.g., activated alkynes,9 carbodiimides10 and solvents like acetonitrile or THF without any need to use isocyanates.11 Moreover, the PCOÀ anion allows the synthesis of autoclaves (Scheme 1). Their formation can be explained by À the nucleophilic attack of E(SiMe3)2 anions formed in situ at Fachbereich Chemie and Wissenschaftliches Zentrum fu¨r Materialwissenschaften, CO2 formed by the decay of unstable carbonate intermediate Philipps-Universita¨t Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany. Me3SiO–COOMe followed by silyl migration and siloxane E-mail: [email protected], jsu@staff.uni-marburg.de † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental and crystallo- elimination. + À + À graphic details. CCDC 1450250–1450252 and 1454441. For ESI and crystallographic The compounds [P(nBu)3Me] [PCO] (1) and [EMIm] [PCO] data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/c6cc06620h (4) were obtained as yellow to orange, very viscous oils and can 11646 | Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11646--11648 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016 View Article Online Communication ChemComm + À Fig. 1 Molecular structure of [PMe4] [PCO] (3). Hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity; thermal ellipsoids represent a 50% probability level. Selected distances [Å] and angles [1]: P2–C5 1.579(1), C5–O1 1.213(1), P1–C3 1.782(1); P2–C5–O1 179.9(15). Scheme 1 Synthesis of organic phosphaethynolate salts, yields in par- entheses (BuMePyr: 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium, MeMePyr: 1,1-dimethyl- pyrrolidinium, EMIm: 1-ethyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium). therefore be regarded as room temperature ILs; all other PCOÀ salts presented in this work were received as yellow to orange BuMe + À + À powders. While the salts [ Pyr] [PCO] (2) and [PMe4] [PCO] + À (3) melt reversibly below 100 1C, the compound [NMe4] [PCO] 1 + À Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. (6)decomposesat215 C. Symmetric [C(NMe ) ] [PCO] (5) 2 3 Fig. 2 Molecular structure of [C(NMe ) ]+[PCO]À (5). Hydrogen atoms are 1 MeMe + À 2 3 decomposes at 230 C while asymmetric [ Pyr] [PCO] (7) omitted for clarity; thermal ellipsoids represent a 50% probability level. melts reversibly at 125 1C. Only one of two independent ion pairs in the asymmetric unit is displayed. The prepared phosphaethynolate salts were investigated by 5 crystallises with one molecule of acetonitrile per asymmetric unit. 1H, 13C and 31P NMR spectroscopy. In good agreement with Selected distances [Å] and angles [1]: P1–C1 1.594(1), C1–O1 1.188(1), C2–N1 1.344(1); P1–C1–O1 179.3(4). literature reports, the phosphorus atom of the anion displays a resonance between À382.6 ppm and À390.3 ppm21 and 13C{1H} + À NMR resonance signals are consistent with other published [NMe4] [PCO] (6) crystallises in the monoclinic crystal 1 values in the range of 167.7 to 170.0 ppm, which show JCP system in the space group P21/m. The P–C and C–O bond This article is licensed under a coupling constants consistent with literature known com- lengths are 1.601(1) Å and 1.203(2) Å, respectively, and within + À 1 21 À pounds such as [K(18c6)] [PCO] with JCP = 62 Hz. the typical range of the PCO anion. The P–C–O angle is 179.21 The IR spectra of compounds 1–7 show two characteristic and shows the expected nearly linear geometry. À1 Open Access Article. Published on 22 August 2016. Downloaded 9/24/2019 7:27:58 PM. bands in the range from 1757 to 1772 cm and from 1791 to Besides the reaction of methylcarbonate ILs with P(SiMe3)3 1799 cmÀ1 of the PCOÀ anion, which are in agreement with we investigated their behaviour towards the heavier homologue + À À1 the spectra of [K(18c6)] [PCO] (1730 cm ) and NaOCPÁDME Sb(SiMe3)3 in order to synthesise a compound of an unknown (1760 cmÀ1, 1780 cmÀ1).12,21 SbCOÀ anion. Its existence and stability at ambient tempera- + À + À The salts [PMe4] [PCO] (3), [C(NMe2)3] [PCO] (5) and ture was postulated by Schaefer and co-workers on the basis of + À 22 [NMe4] [PCO] (6) could be obtained as single crystals and DFT calculations. + À were investigated by X-ray diffraction. [PMe4] [PCO] (3) crystal- Similar to the previously mentioned procedure, + À lises in the orthorhombic crystal system in the space group [P(nBu)3Me] [OCO2Me] was dissolved in DME and Sb(SiMe3)3 Pnma and includes one ion pair in the asymmetric unit (Fig. 1). wasslowlyaddedat01C. The reaction mixture turned dark brown. The phosphorus–carbon bond length in the anion is 1.579(1) Å Obviously a different competitive reaction path of desilylated and is thus in good agreement with the bond length in anionic antimony species is involved. After filtration of some solid [K(18c6)]+[PCO]À (1.579(3) Å). Also the carbon–oxygen bond material, black plates crystallized from solution at room tempera- length in the anion ((C5–O1): 1.213(1) Å) is similar to the value ture. The XRD analysis revealed an antimony cluster of the 21 + 3À described by Goicoechea (d(C–O): 1.212(4) Å). composition [P(nBu)3Me] 3[Sb11] (8). We did not find any indica- + À À [C(NMe2)3] [PCO] (5, Fig. 2) crystallises in the monoclinic tion of the formation of analogues of a salt with the SbCO anion. crystal system in the space group P21/c with two independent 8 crystallises in the monoclinic crystal system in the space group 3À ion pairs and one equivalent of acetonitrile in the asymmetric Cc.Fig.3displaysthe[Sb11] Zintl anion crystallised with three À 3À unit.