Pietschnig Lab Kassel

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Phosphorus and main group chemistry research at Kassel University headed by Rudolf Pietschnig

What a nice recognition for our lab, two of our articles received a certificate as top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the journal in 2023! Many thanks to all co-authors involved 👍 and of course to our readers 😊

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Fresh out of the oven. Check out Chenyang’s most recent work in JACS (@jacs.acspublications.org). We explore the reactivity of a phosphinidene oxide as the electrophilic partner in Wittig transformations. Hope you enjoy. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

A Fresh Twist on the Phospha-(Aza)-Wittig Reaction

The reactivity of an unsupported phosphinidene oxide, BnArNP═O (Bn = benzyl; Ar = bulky aryl group), as the electrophilic partner in Wittig reactions with ylides is described. Reactions with methylene-triphenylphosphorane (H2C═PPh3) and ethylidene-triphenyl-phosphorane (HMeC═PPh3), proceed as expected, giving rise to the phosphaalkene metathesis products and triphenylphosphine oxide. This reaction can be extended to other ylides such as N-(triphenylphosphoranylidene)methanamine (MeN═PPh3), to afford an aminoiminophosphane BnArNP═NMe. In these reactions the phosphinidene oxide plays the role of an electrophile, which would typically be the remit of an organic carbonyl in classical Wittig reactions. Further mechanistic insight into such transformations can be gained by altering the nature of the phosphorus-ylide. Upon reacting BnArNP═O with H2C═PMe3 (which possesses a smaller, more Lewis basic, phosphine) an alternative product is formed. This transformation supports the formation of a betaine intermediate that subsequently undergoes hydrogen-migration to afford an oxidized phosphorus(V) compound related to phosphorus acid.

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Blocking the phosphorus lone-pairs in bisphosphanyltetrylenes results in cationic bisphosphoniotetrylenes which stay monomeric in case of the stannylene while the corresponding plumbylene dimerizes via the anion. Many thanks to all collaborators in our study in this ICCOC-GTL special issue.

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Beim Treffen der FG-Vorsitzenden wurde außerdem die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Phosphorchemie ausgezeichnet: Sie hat im vergangenen Jahr (2022) das größte relative Mitgliederwachstum erreicht. GDCh-Präsident Karsten Danielmeier gratulierte der Vorsitzenden der AG Evamarie Hey-Hawkins. .

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)@gdch.de · 3y ago

In Fulda treffen sich zur Zeit die Fachgruppen-Vorsitzenden der GDCh zu ihrer jährlichen Klausurtagung. Wie immer gibt es viel zu besprechen, aber Zeit für ein Erinnerungsfoto ist natürlich trotzdem.🙂

Die Teilnehmenden des GDCh-Fachgruppentreffens vor dem Logo "Rethinking Chemistry". Foto: GDCh