Extending the chemistry of carbones : P-N bond cleavage via an SN2′-like mechanism

• Main Authors: Gurnani, Chitra, Đorđević, Nemanja, Muthaiah, Senthilkumar, Dimić, Dušan, Ganguly, Rakesh, Petković, Milena, Vidović, Dragoslav
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry::Organic chemistry::Carbanions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106217; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/26342
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The reactivity of nucleophilic carbodiphosphorane (C(PPh3)2, 1) and carbodicarbene (C(C(NMe)2C6H4)2, 2) towards various dichlorophosphines has been explored. In most cases the expected carbone-for-chloride ligand exchange was observed. However, the use of MeN(PCl2)2 resulted in a unique P–N bond cle...