Abstract
The t-Bu3P/B(C6F5)3 frustrated Lewis pair (6a) undergoes competing acetylene deprotonation (to give the phosphonium–alkenylborate salt 8) and 1,4-P/B FLP addition to the conjugated enyne 2-methylbutenyne to yield the zwitterionic allene derivative 9a. The less basic (o-tolyl)3P/B(C6F5)3 system (6b) avoids the acetylene deprotonation pathway. The zwitterionic allene derivative 9b formed by 1,4-P/B FLP addition to the enyne is again a prominent reaction product; here competing 1,2-addition is observed to give the olefinic product 10. The allene derivatives 9a and 9b and their competing products 8 and 10 were characterized by X-ray diffraction.
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