Se. Bottle et al., THE SYNTHESIS AND X-RAY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNUSUAL 7-MEMBERED DIAZA-PHOSPHA-TETRATHIA HETEROCYCLE, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (22), 1993, pp. 1684-1685
When the di-aryl or di-alkyl phenyl phosphonamide (RNH)2P(O)Ph 1 is tr
eated with sulfur(I) chloride (S2Cl2) in base,the product is an unexpe
cted, unusual seven-membered diazatetrathiaphospha heterocycle 3; the
X-ray structure and NMR spectra of these two unique heterocycles indic
ate that they exist in a pseudo-chair conformation with steric congest
ion limiting the freedom of rotation of the phenyl group; and represen
t the first known examples of this hetero-ring system.