Chlorodiphenylphosphine is used to introduce the diphenylphosphinyl moiety by aryl ortho-lithiation. It is also used as an intermediate to make antioxidants, flame retardants, stabilizers, catalysts, photoinitiators, and optical brighteners. Used as a halogenation reagent for the conversion of alcohols into halides, in the preparation of solid-phase reagent for the conversion of alcohols to alkyl halides.
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Applications
Chlorodiphenylphosphine is used to introduce the diphenylphosphinyl moiety by aryl ortho-lithiation. It is also used as an intermediate to make antioxidants, flame retardants, stabilizers, catalysts, photoinitiators, and optical brighteners. Used as a halogenation reagent for the conversion of alcohols into halides, in the preparation of solid-phase reagent for the conversion of alcohols to alkyl halides.
Solubility
Reacts with water.
Notes
Air and moisture sensitive. Store in cool, dry place in tightly closed containers. Store way from water and air.
RUO – Research Use Only
Mehran Maleki; Allen Miller; O.William Lever Jr. Preparation of α-oxygenated phosphine oxides from chlorodiphenylphosphine. Tetrahedron Letters. 1981, 22 (4), 365-368.
Edward H. Wong; Fontaine C. Bradley. Hydrolysis of chlorodiphenylphosphine complexes of molybdenum and palladium. Inorg. Chem. 1981, 20 (7), 2333-2335.
Reacts with Li metal in liquid ammonia to give the Li diphenylphosphide: Tetrahedron Lett., 21, 3535 (1980). Reaction with vinyl lithium intermediates from the reaction of alkyllithiums with sulfonylhydrazones (see p-Toluenesulfonyl hydrazide, A13529) gives vinylphosphines: Tetrahedron Lett., 22, 4619 (1981).