N. Mezailles et al., SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY OF PHOSPHIRANE LIGANDS AND THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CP-ASTERISK-IRCL2(TERT-BUTYLPHOSPHIRANE), Organometallics, 16(8), 1997, pp. 1526-1530
New and stable phosphiranes, tert-butylphosphirane and xylylphosphiran
e, were prepared. tert-Butylphosphirane is stable to polymerization in
the presence of electrophiles. It was reacted with chloro)chloro(pent
amethylcyclopentadienyl)iridium) to prepare rane)dichloro(pentamethylc
yclopentadienyl)iridium, which was characterized by X-ray diffraction,
tert-Butylphosphirane was also reacted with pentacarbonyl(tetrahydrof
uran)tungsten and borane to form (tert-butylphosphirane)pentacarbonylt
ungsten and the first phosphirane-borane adduct, respectively.