Abstract
The planned synthesis of hypervalent 10–P–3 and 10–As–3 compounds 1 and 2 from brominated bis(oxazoline) and bis(imine) NCN pincers via a lithiation/electrophilic quenching (with PnCl3; Pn=P or As)/reduction protocol resulted in unexpected findings and reactivity. Generation of bis(oxazoline)-ligated (NCN)PCl2 derivative CP resulted in an intramolecular SN2 reaction, leading to formation of ring-opened 3, which could be phenylated with PhMgBr to give 4. In solution, bis(imine)-based (NCN)PCl2 analogue DP displayed a complicated product mixture by 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy, likely due to the presence of several ionic species and iminium-enamine tautomers, while the As derivative (DAs) was isolable and crystallized in a distorted square pyramidal geometry. Reduction of both derivatives of D with PMe3 did not afford the targeted 10–Pn–3 (Pn=P or As) species 2, but rather generated rare examples of dynamic bell-clappers. [Display omitted]
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