A NEW ENANTIOSELECTIVE ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS OF TRI-CO-ORDINATE PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS FROM DI-CO-ORDINATE λ3-ARYL(ALKYL)IMINOPHOSPHINES

Abstract
The reaction of di-co-ordinate λ3-aryl(alkyl)iminophosphines (1) with achiral alcohols in the presence of optically active tertiary amines has been found to proceed in an asymmetric way affording optically active O-alkyl amidophosphonites (2). N-(2,4,6-Tris-t-butylphenyl)amido-O-methyl-phenyl-phosphonite (2a) was obtained in this way with 55% ee and the absolute configuration (S) was chemically linked with (+)-(R)-O-methyl t-butanephosphonothioic acid.