Process for tris(aralkyl)phosphines
AssigneeAmerican Cyanamid Company
InventorsNorma Ann Weston, Ray Leonard Hillard
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Abstract
In a solution that is free of bases and free of oxygen and which contains at least four molar proportions of the reactant tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine for every three molar proportions of an aralkyl halide reactant, the following reaction produces tris(aralkyl)phosphine product: 3(Ar-CH.sub.2 X) + 4P(CH.sub.2 OH).sub.3 .fwdarw. (Ar-CH.sub.2).sub.3 P + 3P.sup.+ (CH.sub.2 OH).sub.4 X.sup.- after separation of the phosphine product, the phosphonium salt by-products can be converted to tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine by the addition of a base.
Claims11
A method for the preparation of a tris(aralkyl)phosphines having the formula:
- (AR--CH.sub.2).sub.3 P
- which comprises reacting, in an oxygen free environment, one molar proportion of an aralkyl halide having the formula:
- AR--CH.sub.2 X
- wherein AR is a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or polycyclic aromatic nucleus and X is a halogen atom, with at least about 1.3 molar proportions of tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine.
A method for the preparation of a tris(aralkyl)phosphine represented by the formula:
- (AR--CH.sub.2 --.sub.3 P
- which comprises neutralizing an aqueous solution of a tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium halide with a base, and reacting, in an oxygen free environment, the resulting solution of tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine with an aralkyl halide, represented by the formula:
- AR--CH.sub.2 X
- wherein AR is a substituted or unsubstituted mono- or polycyclic aromatic nucleus and X is a halogen atom;
- the mole ratio of said aralkyl halide to said tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine being in the range of about 1:2 to 1:4.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.