Synthesis of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds, Second Edition is a working guide for the laboratory, incorporating classical approaches with the recent developments of carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bond formation. These advances include the preparation of phosphoranes - specifically in the use of transient oxophosphoranes as intermediates in organophosphorus comp

Volume 3 covers carbon-to-carbon single bond forming reactions involving sp3, sp2 and sp carbon centers, but only those which do not involve additions to C-X &pgr;-bonds. The volume first compares and contrasts the alkylation reactions of all types of sp3 carbon nucleophiles and also covers vinyl and alkynyl carbanions. Following on from Volume 2, a separate section covers Friedel-Crafts alkylation reactions, which is complemented by discussions of polyene cyclizations and electrophilic transannular cyclizations in synthesis. Coupling reactions leading to &agr;-bond formation, and involving all types of combinations ofsp3, sp2 and sp carbon centers are next covered, including those reactions based on pinacol, acyloin and phenol oxidative coupling reactions, and also the Kolbe reaction. Rearrangement reactions, leading to carbon-to-carbon &agr;-bond formation, are often used in a clever manner in synthesis. The volume includes all those rearrangement reactions based on intermediate carbonium ions and carbanions, and also includes the benzil-benzilic acid and the Wolff rearrangements. The volume closes with coverage of carbonylation reactions, and the use of carbene insertion reactions into the C-H bond in synthesis.

Synthesis of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds, Second Edition is a working guide for the laboratory, incorporating classical approaches with the recent developments of carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bond formation. These advances include the preparation of phosphoranes - specifically in the use of transient oxophosphoranes as intermediates in organophosphorus compound synthesis ñ along with the new approaches towards the preparation of compounds with aromatic and vinylic C-P bonds. Synthesis of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds, Second Edition serves as a useful tool in the laboratory. It offers detailed surveys of IUPAC nomenclature recommendations, common notation systems, and various experimental examples. These features help to make this text an effective source of critical and annotated references, as well as a a working guide for organic and phosphorus chemists specifically, or for any chemists working with C-P bonds.

Chapter 1 takes the format of an "Outlook", and sets forth the case for developing sustainable methods in the synthesis of phosphorus-containing compounds. Methods used by nature for phosphorus-carbon bond-formation, or in the chemistry of other elements such as silicon, are discussed as model processes for the future of phosphorus in chemical synthesis. Chapter 2 describes the discovery of [TBA][P(SiCl3)2], prepared from [TBA]3[P3O9]-.2H2O and trichlorosilane. The bis(trichlorosilyl)phosphide anion is used to prepare compounds that contain P–C, P–O, P–F, and P–H bonds in a method that bypasses white phosphorus (P4), the traditional route to organophosphorus compounds. Chapter 3 extends the phosphate precursors to [TBA][P(SiCl3)2] from trimetaphosphate to crystalline phosphoric acid. Balanced equations are developed for the formation of [TBA][P(SiCl3)2] from phosphate sources and the byproducts are identified as hexachlorodisiloxane and hydrogen gas. Extension of trichlorosilane reduction to bisulfate provides improved access the known trichlorosilylsulfide anion, [TBA][SSiCl3]. This anion was used as a thionation reagent to prepare thiobenzophenone and benzyl mercaptan from benzophenone and benzyl bromide, respectively. Chapter 4 describes the synthesis of neutral phosphine, HP(SiCl3)2, obtained by protonation of [TBA]1 with triflic acid. HP(SiCl3)2 is a highly efficient reagent for photochemical hydrophosphination of terminal alkenes. The phosphorus-silicon bonds in the hydrophosphination products can be functionalized to provide compounds of the general formulae: RPCl2, RPH2, [RP(R')3]Cl, RP(O)(H)(OH), and RP(O)(OH)2. Chapter 5 describes a method to prepare phosphiranes (three-membered rings that contain a phosphorus atom) from anthracene-based phosphinidene precursors and styrenic olefins. The phosphinidene transfer reaction requires an organoiron and fluoride catalyst. The resulting phosphirane is prepared in good yield (73%) with high stereoselectivity (>99%). Experimental investigations into the mechanism point toward the intermediacy of an iron-coordinated fluorophosphide species.

C$sb2$-Symmetric diamines were synthesized in order to examine carbon-carbon bond forming reactions using chiral auxiliary-based phosphorus reagents. The general utility of these diamines as chiral auxiliaries in the diastereoselective alkylation of P-alkyl anions was examined. A systematic study of the alkylation of the P-alkyl anions was accomplished varying N-alkyl and P-alkyl substituents. High diastereoselectivity was achieved with N-neopentyl substrates (up to 92:8 diastereoselectivity). The P-allyl anions with varying phosphorus substituents have heen investigated. The diastereoselectivity and the regioselectivity of Michael reactions of chiral cis-oxazaphosphorinanes with cyclic enones were very high. The reaction with chiral trans-oxazaphosphorinanes was not selective. The conjugate addition reaction of a variety of P-allyldiazaphosphorinanes with cyclic enones, varying the substituent of P-allyl unit, was highly regio- and diastereoselective. The nucleophilic addition to the $alpha,beta$-unsaturated phosphorus(V) compounds proved to be highly nucleophile-dependent. The nucleophiles with certain range of pK$sb{rm a}$ values (25-32) have been shown to react with the $alpha,beta$-unsaturated phosphorus(V) compounds. The diastereoselectivity of the reaction with sulfone stabilized anions or the amide enolates was low in either the internal or relative sense due to the flexible conformation of the P-propenyl side chain. The general reactivity of P-acyl enolate was extraordinarily low toward usual electrophiles except for silylating agents (TMSCl, TESCl) which produced (E)-silyl enol ethers exclusively. Asymmetric aldol reaction of the enolates derived from P-acylphosphorus heterocycles were not highly successful (up to 36% e.e.) mostly due to their low reactivity and the nature of the thermodynamically controlled reaction.