Synthesis of the first 1,2,3,4-azatriphospholene complex.
Synthesis of the first 1,2,3,4-azatriphospholene complex was achieved by heating a solution of a P-phenyl-substituted 7-phosphanorbornadiene tungsten complex and triphenylphosphonio cyanomethylide, whereby CH-insertion products were formed in a competing reaction; these results also provide first evidence for the ability of electrophilic terminal phosphanediyl complexes to react at the ylide carbon atom and at the carbonitrile nitrogen atom of Wittig-ylides having a nitrile functional group; the structures of both complexes were established through X-ray single-crystal diffraction studies.
Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technischen Universität Braunschweig, Postfach 3329, D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany.
Nils
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Hoffmann
Cathleen
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Wismach
Peter G
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Jones
Rainer
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Streubel
Ngoc Hoa Tran
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Huy
François
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Mathey