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    1. Phosphine oxides are organophosphorus compounds with the general formula OPX3, where X can be an alkyl or aryl group. Triphenylphosphine oxide is an example. 2. Phosphine oxides form through oxidation reactions and as byproducts of the Wittig reaction. They can also form through thermolysis of phosphonium hydroxides. 3. Phosphine oxides are used as ligands in homogeneous catalysis and have labilizing effects in organometallic reactions. They can also participate in Wittig-like reactions to form styrenes.

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    1. Phosphine oxides are organophosphorus compounds with the general formula OPX3, where X can be an alkyl or aryl group. Triphenylphosphine oxide is an example. 2. Phosphine oxides form through oxidation reactions and as byproducts of the Wittig reaction. They can also form through thermolysis of phosphonium hydroxides. 3. Phosphine oxides are used as ligands in homogeneous catalysis and have labilizing effects in organometallic reactions. They can also participate in Wittig-like reactions to form styrenes.

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    1. Phosphine oxides are organophosphorus compounds with the general formula OPX3, where X can be an alkyl or aryl group. Triphenylphosphine oxide is an example. 2. Phosphine oxides form through oxidation reactions and as byproducts of the Wittig reaction. They can also form through thermolysis of phosphonium hydroxides. 3. Phosphine oxides are used as ligands in homogeneous catalysis and have labilizing effects in organometallic reactions. They can also participate in Wittig-like reactions to form styrenes.

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    1. Phosphine oxides are organophosphorus compounds with the general formula OPX3, where X can be an alkyl or aryl group. Triphenylphosphine oxide is an example. 2. Phosphine oxides form through oxidation reactions and as byproducts of the Wittig reaction. They can also form through thermolysis of phosphonium hydroxides. 3. Phosphine oxides are used as ligands in homogeneous catalysis and have labilizing effects in organometallic reactions. They can also participate in Wittig-like reactions to form styrenes.

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    Phosphine oxide

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    General formula of organophosphine oxides

    Phosphine oxides are phosphorus compounds with the formula OPX3. When X = alkyl or aryl, these are organophosphine oxides. Triphenylphosphine oxide is an example. An inorganic phosphine oxide is phosphoryl trichloride (Cl3PO). Such compounds are thermally stable, decomposing only above 450 C.[1] Phosphoryl refers to a functional group drawn with a phosphorus-oxygen double bond.
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    1 Bonding 2 Syntheses 3 Use 4 Parent compound 5 References

    Bonding[edit source]
    According to Molecular Orbital Theory, the short P-O bond is attributed to the donation of the lone pair electrons from oxygen p-orbitals to the antibonding phosphorus-carbon bonds; This proposal, which is supported by ab initio calculations, has gained consensus in the chemistry community.[2] The nature of the phosphorus to oxygen bonding was once hotly debated, as the involvement of a phosphorus d-orbitals in bonding is not supported by computational analyses. In terms of simple Lewis structure, the bond is more accurately represented as a dative bond, as is currently used to depict an amine oxide.

    Syntheses[edit source]
    Phosphine oxides are frequently generated as a by-product of the Wittig reaction:

    R3PCR'2 + R"2CO R3PO + R'2C=CR"2 Another common route to phosphine oxides is the thermolysis of phosphonium hydroxides. In the laboratory, phosphine oxides are usually generated by the oxidation, often accidentally, of tertiary phosphines: R3P + 1/2 O2 R3PO

    Use[edit source]
    Phosphine oxides are ligands in various applications of homogeneous catalysis. In coordination chemistry, they are known to have labilizing effects to CO ligands cis to it in organometallic reactions. The cis effect describes this process. Phosphine oxides are typically (and appropriately) viewed as useless by-products in the Wittig reaction. They can, however, be usable in certain Wittig-like reactions. Thus, benzaldehyde has been converted to -methoxystyrene using methoxymethyl diphenylphosphine oxide in a two step procedure. In step one the phosphine oxide is deprotonated at 90 C in THF/ether with lithium diisopropylamide, then the aldehyde is added. After aqueous workup, adducts are isolated. With potassium-t-butoxide the adducts are, at room temperature, converted to the styrenes. As the adducts exist as a separatable mixture of D/L compounds and a meso-form the final styrenes are obtainable as pure E- or Z-form .[3]

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    The parent compound phosphine oxide (H3PO) is unstable. It has been detected with mass spectrometry as a reaction product of oxygen and phosphine,[4] by means of FT-IR in a phosphine-ozone reaction [5] and in matrix isolation with a reaction of phosphine, vanadium oxytrichloride and chromyl chloride.[6] It is also been reported relatively stable in a water-ethanol solution by electrochemical oxidation of white phosphorus, where it slowly disproportionates into phosphine and hypophosphorous acid.[7] Phosphine oxide is tautomeric with phosphinous acid(H2POH).

    Ball-And-Stick model of the parent compound phosphine oxide

    Phosphine oxide is reported as an intermediate in the room-temperature polymerization of phosphine and nitric oxide to solid PxHy.[8]

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