title: Development of a Synthetic Route to Unsymmetrical Triphosphine Ligands and an Investigation of Their Coordination Chemistry with Nickel and Palladium.
abstract: Chiral tridentate phosphines, R(2)P(CH(2))(3)PPh(CH(2))(2)PPh(2) where R = C(6)H(5), p-ClC(6)H(4), and p-FC(6)H(4), can be prepared from simple starting materials, (R(3)P, I(CH(2))(3)I, and Ph(2)P(CH(2))(2)PPh(2)), in a few stages involving phosphonium salts and phosphine oxides as intermediates. Crystalline diamagnetic complexes of nickel(II) and palladium(II) have been isolated. In solution these show first-order 12 line (31)P NMR spectra consistent with three nonequivalent phosphorus nuclei coupled to one another in a square planar geometry. A single X-ray crystallographic study of NiI(2){P(CH(2))(3)PPh(CH(2))(2)PPh(2)} showed that this was square pyramidal in the solid state with a weakly held apical iodo ligand.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, U.K.
authors.forename: G.
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dyer
authors.forename: J.
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roscoe