Controlled Ring Opening of a Tetracyclic Tetraphosphane with Twofold Metallocene Bridging

Dey, Subhayan and Szathmári, Balázs and Franz, Roman and Bruhn, Clemens and Kelemen, Zsolt and Pietschnig, Rudolf (2024) Controlled Ring Opening of a Tetracyclic Tetraphosphane with Twofold Metallocene Bridging. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 30 (24). No. e20240019. ISSN 0947-6539

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Abstract

A direct route to a doubly ferrocene bridged tetracyclic tetraphosphane 1 was developed via reductive coupling of Fe(CpPCl2)2 (2a), where a chlorine terminated linear P4-compound 3 could be identified as an intermediate. Selective P P bond activation was further achieved by reacting 1 with elemental selenium or [Cp*Al]4, where regioselective insertion of Se or Al atoms resulted in ferrocenylene bridged [P4Se] (4) or [P4Al] (7) moieties. Compound 7 can be transformed to a hydrogen terminated linear P4 species, 8, with protic solvents. Methylation of compound 1 with MeOTf, proceeds via intermediate formation of monomethylated species 5, which gradually produced Me2-terminated dicationic 6, again containing a linear P4-unit. Besides spectroscopic characterization, the structural details of compounds 1, 4, 6, and 8 could be determined by SC-XRD. Moreover, DFT calculations were used to rationalize the reactivity of 1, derived compounds and intermediates. As a key feature, 1 undergoes ring opening polymerization to a linear polyphosphane 9.

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