Direct, oxidative halogenation of diaryl- or dialkylphosphine oxides with (dihaloiodo)arenes

Abstract

The oxidative halogenation of diaryl- or dialkylphosphine oxides with the hypervalent iodine reagents (difluoroiodo)toluene (p-TolIF2, 1) and (dichloroiodo)benzene (PhICl2, 2) is reported. Phosphoric fluorides could be recovered in 32–75% yield, or they could be trapped with EtOH to give the corresponding phosphinate in typically good yield. Phosphoric chlorides were not readily isolable, and were trapped with alcohol and amine nucleophiles, giving diaryl- or dialkylphos-phinates and phosphinamides in up to 90% yield.