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SUBMITTER: Reichl KD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4769643 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150421 16
We report that a regioselective reductive transposition of primary allylic bromides is catalyzed by a biphilic organophosphorus (phosphetane) catalyst. Spectroscopic evidence supports the formation of a pentacoordinate (σ(5)-P) hydridophosphorane as a key reactive intermediate. Kinetics experiments and computational modeling are consistent with a unimolecular decomposition of the σ(5)-P hydridophosphorane via a concerted cyclic transition structure that delivers the observed allylic transpositio ...[more]