Hydrophosphination

Hydrophosphination is the addition of a phosphorus-hydrogen bond across a carbon-carbon multiple bond (Scheme 1) forming a new phosphorus-carbon bond.[1] Employing hydrophosphination as a means of synthesizing phosphines is beneficial given that it inherently has a high atom economy.[2]

Scheme 1. The reaction of hydrophosphination.

Unfortunately, like other metal-catalyzed heterofunctionalizations, addition of an E-H bond to an unsaturated substrate, a problem is encountered when E is a donor (hydroamination, hydrooxygenation, hydrothiolation). In the case of hydrophosphination, the product phosphines are good ligands themselves and can poison the catalyst being used. This problem needs to be addressed in order to have an efficient metal-catalyzed hydrophosphination. Another consideration is that the P-H addition to a carbon-carbon multiple bond can occur in a variety of different ways.[3] The selectivity of the addition can be influenced by the design of the metal catalyst. Considerably interest has been maintained in this field due to the widespread use of phosphines in asymmetric synthesis.

Background of P-C Bond Formation

There are a variety of known routes to synthesizing phosphines without a catalyst (radical, thermal, photochemical, metathetical etc.), but these routes do not introduce the required stereo- or regioselectivity that metal catalyzed hydrophosphination would.[4]

Radical Catalyzed Hydrophosphination

Scheme 2. The reactions of radical hydrophosphination.

Ultraviolet irradiation or conventional free-radical sources can be used to initiate radical catalyzed hydrophosphination. The P-H bond can be homolytically cleaved to produce the phosphino radical, a seven electron species, which is relatively stable.[5] The hydrophosphination propagates as seen in (Scheme 2), where the phosphino radical attacks the olefin, producing the radical on the carbon, which then activates the P-H bond of another phosphine. Phosphines with more than one P-H bond can react more than once to form the tertiary phosphines.

Metathesis with M-PR2

Electropositive metal-dialkylphosphides can also be used to synthesize phosphines with alkyl and aryl halides, alkenes and alkynes. The dialkylphosphide acts as a nucleophile and attacks electrophilic carbon atoms.[6] This usually introduces separation steps in order to isolate the product phosphine; removal of MX. Dialkylphosphides are likely to add to conjugated π-bonds such that the negative charge in the intermediate can be delocalized. Or with alkenes and alkynes with a halogen on the unsaturated carbon such that an addition-elimination can occur.[7]

Hydrophosphination Catalysis

Generally speaking, the steps of a metal catalyzed hydrophosphination would include coordination of the primary or secondary phosphine to the metal, activation of the P-H bond (via oxidative addition or proton abstraction by an external base), P-C bond formation (through either insertion, Michael addition, or [2+2] cycloaddition), reductive elimination or addition of the abstracted proton and finally substitution of the newly made phosphine by the starting primary or secondary phosphine.[8]

Early Transition Metal Catalysts

Scheme 3. Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination of α, ω-pentenylphosphine catalyzed by lanthanocenes.
Scheme 4. Proposed mechanism for Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination of diphenylacetylene with phenylphosphine (PPhH2) catalyzed by a cationic titanium phosphinidene complex.

Most early metal complexes that have been found to catalyze hydrophosphination of unsaturated substrates are electron-deficient, d0 metal complexes.[9][10] They are also from the groups 1- 4 and include some lanthanide complexes. The catalysis typically involves inner-sphere P-C bond forming through metal-phosphido intermediates due to the nucleophilicity of the phosphido, being polarized by the metal.[11]

In 2002, Marks et al. reported some of the first examples of hydrophosphination of simple alkenes and alkynes, being catalyzed by lanthanocene complexes.[12][13][14][15][16] The catalytic cycle for the hydrophosphination of α,ω-pentenylphosphine is shown in Scheme 3. Typical of most electron-poor early metal catalysts for hydrophosphination, this one includes the characteristic P-H bond cleavage and P-C and C-H bond formation steps. The primary phosphine undergoes a σ-bond metathesis with the bis(trimethylsilyl)methylene ligand forming the lanthanide-phosphido. This is then followed by a 1,2-insertion of the pendant terminal alkene or alkyne on the phosphine into the Ln-P bond. Finally, protonolysis of the Ln-C bond with the starting primary phosphine releases the new phosphine and regenerates the catalyst. Given that the metal is electron-poor, the M-C bond is polar enough to be protonolyzed by the substrate primary phosphine; this is characteristic of electron-poor, early metals.

Scheme 5. Proposed catalytic cycle for hydrophosphination of 1,3-dienes by diphenylphosphine, mediated by a cationic titanium phosphide complex.

Since many of the transition metal catalysts that are involved in hydrophosphination employ a phosphido intermediate, it is surprising that there are so few examples of catalysts that involve the metal-phosphinidene intermediate, M=PR. One such example is the Ti-catalyzed hydrophosphination of diphenylacetylene with phenylphosphine (Scheme 4) by Mindiola et al.[17] This system involves a cationic catalyst precursor that is stabilized by the bulky 2,4,6-tri(isopropyl)phenyl- substituent on the phosphinidene and the close ionic association of methyltris(pentafluorophenyl)borate. This precursor undergoes exchange with phenylphosphine to make the titanium-phenylphosphinidene complex which is the catalyst. The Ti=PPh undergoes a [2+2] cycloaddition with diphenylacetylene to make the corresponding metallacyclobutene. The substrate, phenylphosphine, protonolyzes the Ti-C bond and after a proton shift regenerates the catalyst and releases the new phosphine.

Le Gendre and co-workers have shown a titanium-catalyzed 1,4-hydrophosphination of 1,3-dienes with PPh2H (Scheme 5).[18] It is a rare example of a non-d0 early transition metal catalyst that catalyzes hydrophosphination. In the first step, the Ti2+ precursor undergoes an oxidative addition of the P-H bond in diphenylphosphine which generates the Ti3+ catalyst. The rest of the catalysis involve the usual steps: P-C bond formation via 1,2-insertion followed by C-H bond formation and P-H bond activation via protonolysis with the substrate secondary phosphine.

Late Transition Metal Catalysts

Scheme 6. Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination of enones catalyzed by the cationic palladium(II) catalyst.

The examples of late transition metal hydrophosphination catalysts generally work on activated substrates (alkenes and alkynes with electron withdrawing substituents).[19][20][21][22] This is due to the fact that mechanism for the P-C bond forming step usually involves nucleophilic attack of the phosphorus to the unsaturated carbon. Generally speaking, these metal complexes will first be bound by a primary or secondary phosphine, which then undergoes proton abstraction to make a nucleophilic phosphido ligand. The proton abstraction usually occurs by an external base.This base acts as a co-catalyst which is common to late transition metal hydrophosphination catalysts.

One such example is the cationic palladium(II) catalyst by Leung and Pullarkat.[23][24][25][26] This complex catalyzes hydrophosphination of enones (Scheme 6). The bound secondary phosphine becomes deprotonated by the base triethylamine, forming the phosphido. Following this the phosphido attacks the β-carbon of the enone, which is bound to the palladium through its oxygen atom. The abstracted proton from the secondary phosphine is delivered to the enone oxygen. Substitution by another secondary phosphine regenerates the catalyst and releases the 1,2-addition product. Other common characteristics of such late metal catalysts that do not require oxidative addition of the P-H bond are: the metal in a 2+ oxidation state, and cationic complexes. These two features are important given that a base is needed because being cationic and in an oxidation state of 2+ increases the acidity of the coordinated primary or secondary phosphine proton and allows for weaker bases/conjugate acids to be used in catalysis.

Scheme 7. Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination catalyzed by Pt(II) phosphido complex.
Scheme 8. Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination catalyzed by Ni(0) catalyst.

There are late metal hydrophosphination catalysts that rely on oxidative addition of a P-H bond. For example, Glueck et al. has reported a Pt(0) catalyst that undergoes oxidative addition of a secondary phosphine to form the corresponding Pt(II) phosphido complex (Scheme 7). Following this, alkenes such as acrylonitrile inserts into the Pt-P bond and then reductively eliminate to afford the hydrophosphinated acrylonitrile. Interestingly, this P-C bond forming step was found to occur through an outer-sphere, Michael-type addition because telomerization was occurring. The carbanion intermediate would attack another molecule of acrylonitrile affording a product that would be expected from many 1,2-insertions of the alkene.[27][28][29]

As stated in the last example, the alkene inserted into the metal-phosphorus bond, but insertion into the metal-hydrogen bond is also possible. This is demonstrated in the catalyst systems by Beletskaya et al. (Scheme 7).[30][31] The Ni(0) catalyst involves oxidation addition of a P-H bond to the metal, followed by insertion of the alkene into the M-H bond (Scheme 8). As a result of this, the product phosphine is produced through reductive elimination of a P-C bond rather than a P-H bond in Glueck's system.

Scheme 9. Proposed mechanism for hydrophosphination catalyzed by ruthenium(II) complex.

An interesting prospective hydrophosphination catalyst is the one by Rosenberg et al. which is a ruthenium(II) complex (Scheme 9).[32][33][34][35][36] Like the other late metal catalysts that require a base co-catalyst, this complex requires a base to deprotonate the coordinated secondary phosphine, generating a nucleophilic phosphido complex. The following reactivity varies from the other late metal catalysts in that P-C bond forming step involves a [2+2] cycloaddition with alkenes and alkynes forming metallacycles. The Ru-C bond of the metallacycle is then protonolyzed by the conjugate acid of the base co-catalyst. The newly formed phosphine is then substituted by the starting secondary phosphine to regenerate the catalyst and release the new phosphine. What makes this catalyst unique is that it forms metallacycles, or rather P-C bonds, with strongly and mildly activated, simple and electron-rich alkenes and alkynes, whereas the other catalysts discussed are rather limited; generally, early metals catalyzing unactivated substrates and late metals predominantly activated ones.

As stated, characteristic of the late metal catalysts for hydrophosphination that require a base co-catalyst is that they are in the 2+ oxidation state and cationic. Thus, efforts are also underway to use the similar halide-free, cationic ruthenium(II) complex for catalysis.

Applications

In organometalic chemistry, phosphines are widely used as ligands. This is due to the fact that they are strong σ-donors and are also capable of π-backbonding with metals (dπ-dπ and dπ-σ* interactions). Furthermore, by changing the substituents, phosphines can be used to tune the electronic and steric characteristics of the metals they bind to. Their most important application is in catalysis where the use of enantiomerically pure tertiary phosphines can induce stereoselectivity in reactions; asymmetric catalysis.

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