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Sterically hindered ortho-substituted phosphatriptycenes as configurationally stable P-chirogenic triarylphosphines

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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 50, Issue 14, Pages 4772-4777

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1dt00816a

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The study synthesized ortho-substituted and unsymmetrical 9-phospha-triptycenes with cage-shaped structures, revealing electron-poor and greatly steric shielding effects in these phosphines. An unsymmetrical 9-phosphatriptycene was resolved by chiral HPLC, opening up new possibilities for stable P-chirogenic triarylphosphines in asymmetric transition-metal catalysis.
ortho-Substituted and unsymmetrical 9-phospha-triptycenes were synthesized via two synthetic approaches involving densely functionalized ortho-halogenated triarylmethane or phosphine precursors. ortho-Substituents imposed a considerable steric shielding due to the tricyclic cage-shaped structure with the aryl rings p-systems orthogonal to the phosphorus electron pair. A series of Au(I) and Rh(I) complexes were analysed in the solid state to determine Tolman electronic parameters, cone angles and buried volumes of these unprecedented functionalized phosphines. Quantum chemical calculations of electronic and steric descriptors revealed that these cage-shaped phosphines are electron-poor and that single methyl substituent is enough to provide the largest effect on steric shielding reported so far in triarylphosphines. An unsymmetrically substituted 9-phosphatriptycene was resolved by chiral HPLC, opening the avenue towards stable P-chirogenic triarylphosphines with unlimited configurational stability for new catalyst development in asymmetric transition-metal catalysis.

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