Electric Literature of C50H56O14P2On June 5, 2015, Murai, Masahito; Takeshima, Hirotaka; Morita, Haruka; Kuninobu, Yoichiro; Takai, Kazuhiko published an article in Journal of Organic Chemistry. The article was 《Acceleration effects of phosphine ligands on the rhodium-catalyzed dehydrogenative silylation and germylation of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds》. The article mentions the following:
The current work describes the marked rate of acceleration caused by phosphine ligands on the rhodium-catalyzed dehydrogenative silylation and germylation of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds. The reactivity was affected by the steric and electronic nature of the phosphine ligands. The use of the bulky and electron-rich diphosphine ligand (R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS was highly effective to yield the dehydrogenative silylation products selectively in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor. An appropriate choice of C2-sym. chiral diphosphine ligand enables the asym. dehydrogenative silylation via the enantioselective desymmetrization of the C(sp3)-H bond. The unprecedented catalytic germylation of C(sp3)-H bonds with dehydrogenation was also examined with the combination of the rhodium complex and a wide bite angle diphosphine ligand to provide the corresponding 2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]germoles in good yield. After reading the article, we found that the author used (R)-(6,6′-Dimethoxybiphenyl-2,2′-diyl)bis[bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine](cas: 256390-47-3Electric Literature of C50H56O14P2)
(R)-(6,6′-Dimethoxybiphenyl-2,2′-diyl)bis[bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine](cas: 256390-47-3) belongs to chiral phosphine ligands. Nucleophilic phosphine catalysis often involves the formation of Lewis adducts, namely phosphonium (di)enolate zwitterions, as reaction intermediates. Electric Literature of C50H56O14P2 These intermediates are formed through nucleophilic attack of the phosphine catalysts at electron-poor nuclei (normally carbon atoms) and then proceed through several steps to form new chemical bonds.
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Phosphine ligand,
Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis