title: First isolation and characterization of an anti-apicophilic spirophosphorane bearing an oxaphosphetane ring: a model for the possible reactive intermediate in the Wittig reaction.
abstract: An anti-apicophilic phosphorane bearing an oxaphosphetane ring, in which the ring carbon is apical and the ring oxygen is equatorial (C-apical), has been prepared as a thermally less stable stereoisomer of a phosphorane with an ordinary equatorial carbon-apical oxygen array in the oxaphosphetane ring (O-apical). This novel C-apical phosphorane, which could be considered to be a model compound of the reactive intermediate in the Wittig reaction, was fully characterized by NMR and X-ray structural analysis. The compound was found to easily isomerize to its more stable O-apical isomer, especially in the presence of proton sources, and the latter O-apical compound was found to furnish olefin at elevated temperatures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugino
authors.forename: Shiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsukawa
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamoto
authors.forename: Kin-ya
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Akiba