S. Qiao et al., SYNTHESIS, RESOLUTION, AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A C-2-SYMMETRICAL DIPHOSPHAFERROCENE, Organometallics, 17(4), 1998, pp. 773-774
Treatment of FeCl2 with potassium 2-phenyl-3,4-dimethylphospholide pro
vides a new C-2-symmetric diphosphaferrocene, -tetramethyl-2,2'-diphen
yl-1,1'-diphosphaferrocene (1). Separation by chiral HPLC furnishes bo
th antipodes of complex 1, the first diphosphaferrocene to be prepared
in enantiopure form. The absolute configuration. of (-)-1 has been de
termined by X-ray crystallography.