Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Rhodia Fiber & Resin Intermediates

Institut National De Recherche Chimique Appliquee Ircha

Philippe Savignac

Francois Mathey

Paolo Burattin

Georges Muller

Anne Breque

Frederic Eymery

Hubert Bonnard

Furylphosphines and organometallic complexes containing them

The phospholes and P-functional phospholes correspond to the general formula: ##STR1## in which: R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are identical or different and represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl group of C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 such as a methyl group, and R.sub.3 represents an aryl group (such as --C.sub.6 H.sub.5) or a substituted aryl group (such as --CH.sub.2 C.sub.6 H.sub.5) or an alkyl group (such as --CH.sub.3, --C.sub.2 H.sub.5, --C.sub.3 H.sub.7 to C.sub.12 H.sub.25) or a --(CH.sub.2).sub.n Z group where Z denotes a function of the --COO-alkyl type (such as --COOC.sub.2 H.sub.5), --CH, --CO-aryl (such as --COC.sub.6 H.sub.5), --CO-alkyl (such as --COCH.sub.3) or --OH and n.gtoreq.1. At least one alkyl- or arylhalogeno phosphine is reacted with a butadiene whose carbons in the 2 and/ or 3 positions carry possibly a lower alkyl substituent, the cyclic adduct resulting from this reaction is then subjected to the action of a tertiary amine selected from among those having a pKa comprised between 5 and 11, then the product obtained is functionalized if the corresponding P-functional product is desired. Some of the phospholes thus produced are novel, particularly those of the above formula wherein R.sub.3 =--(CH.sub.2).sub.n Z such as above defined with n.noteq.2 for Z=CN.

Phospholes with functional substituents on the phosphorus and process

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