Cj. Den Reijer et al., A new phosphinite chelate, (aryl)(2)POBF2OH, complexed to ruthenium(II). HBF4-induced P-C bond cleavage in chiral MeO-Biphep complexes, ORGANOMETAL, 17(24), 1998, pp. 5213-5215
Reaction of Ru(OAc)(2)(MeOe-Biphep) (MeO-Biphep = 6, 6'-dimethoxybiphenyl-2
,2'-diylbis(diarylphosphine)) with 2 equiv of HBF4 in CH2Cl2 cleaves the Me
O-Biphep. Products contain the exotic chelate ligand (aryl)(2)POB(OH)F-2 (a
ryl = phenyl, p-tolyl, 3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl) together with an (aryl)(2)P
-eta(6)-arene, 8e donor chelate. The reaction involves a fluorophosphine in
termediate.