The functional phosphine
Ph2PCH2C(O)NPh2
(L
1
) was obtained by P−C selective
coupling of Ph2PCl with Li[CH2
C(
O)NPh2]
and we have studied the influence of the −NPh2
substituent on the reactivity of the
corresponding enolate
Li[Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2]
toward Ph2P−Cl and M−Cl bonds (M = Pd, Pt).
A
selective P−C coupling reaction with Ph2PCl allowed
the synthesis of the new diphosphine ligand
(Ph2P)2CHC(O)NPh2
[bis(diphenylphosphino)-N,N-diphenylacetamide]
(L
2
). The dicationic dinuclear
complex
[Cu2{(Ph2P)2CHC(O)NPh2-P,P,O}2](BF4)2
(3) has been obtained from the reaction of
[Cu(NCMe)4](BF4) with
L
2
. A preliminary
X-ray diffraction study revealed a μ2-η3
tripod-like bonding for L
2
in
this centrosymmetric dimeric complex:
each copper atom is P,O-chelated by one ligand and P-bonded to the
other ligand. An eight-membered
Cu2P4C2
ring is thus formed with the functional diphosphine ligand. The
dynamic behavior has been studied in CHCl3
solution of mono- and binuclear copper(I) complexes of
L
1
and
L
2
. Reversible oxygen-metal
dissociation occurs
in the presence of donor solvents such as NCMe or SMe2.
The reaction of
Li[Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2]
with
[(C N)Pd(μ-Cl)2] afforded the
complexes
[(C N)Pd{Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2}]
[(9) (C N) =
dimethylbenzylamine (dmba); (10) (C N) =
8-methylquinoline (8-mq)]. The molecular structure of
[(8-mq)Pd{Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2}]
has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction: it
crystallizes in the monoclinic space
group P21/c with Z = 4
in a unit cell of dimensions a = 8.801(2) Å,
b = 31.483(6) Å, c = 10.939(2) Å,
β =
101.37(2)°. The structure has been solved from
diffractometer data by Patterson and Fourier methods and
refined by full-matrix least-squares methods on the basis of 2863 observed
reflections to R and R
w values
of
0.0268 and 0.0338, respectively. A temperature dependence of the
reaction of
Li[Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2]
with [PtCl2(NCPh)2] has been observed which
leads to
cis-Pt[Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2]2
(11) at −60 °C and to
trans-Pt[Ph2PC{C(NH)Ph}{C(O)NPh2}]2
(12) at 0 °C. The high reactivity of
cis-Pt[Ph2PCH
C(
O)NPh2]2 toward
p-MeC6H4NCO leads to two
diastereoisomeric products
cis-Pt[Ph2PCH{C(O)N(p-MeC6H4)}{C(O)NPh2}]2 (16a,b in a 1:1 ratio),
which contain new chiral heterodifunctional phosphines.