title: Synthesis and rearrangement of diphosphorus analogues of amidinium salts.
abstract: Transient diphosphinocarbocations IIP are generated either by addition of phosphenium salts to the stable [bis(diisopropylamino)phosphino](silyl)carbene or by chloride abstraction from C-phosphino-P-chloro phosphorus ylides. In contrast to their nitrogen anlogues (amidinium salts) IIN, which feature a planar 3-center-4p-electron system, calculations show that IIP should exist as IIPb, in which one phosphorus is planar, while the other remains pyramidal. With small substituents at phosphorus, derivatives of type IIP rearrange by a 1,3-shift of a phosphorus substituent to the other phosphorus center to give C-phosphoniophosphaalkenes. When bulky substituents are present at phosphorus, derivatives IIP undergo ring closure, giving rise to the corresponding cyclic valence isomers IIIP, in which the carbon atom bears a negative charge. Diphosphinocarbocations IIP can be trapped by acetonitrile giving regioselectively the corresponding [2+3] cycloadduct.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, UMR CNRS 5069, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 04, France.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gornitzka
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baceiredo
authors.forename: Wolfgang W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Schoeller
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bertrand