Delphine Moraleda

Chiral anion-mediated asymmetric ion pairing chemistry

Chemical reactions and processes often involve cationic reagents, intermediates or products in prochiral or chiral racemic form. To afford instead non-racemic compounds, an asymmetric ion pairing of the cations with chiral anionic counterions can be considered. This review presents recent examples of the synthesis and use of chiral anions for such stereoselective purposes.

Assessment of the Electronic Properties of P ligands Stemming from Secondary Phosphine Oxides

We report the study of the net donating ability of monodentate and bidentate P ligands stemming from secondary phosphine oxides (SPOs). We experimentally measured and/or calculated the frequencies of CO stretching modes of various metal carbonyl complexes. The inferred electronic properties of the ligands span an unprecedented range, going from π-accepting phosphite-like compounds, to extremely electron-donating ligands outclassing N-heterocyclic carbenes.

A simple route to chiral phosphinous acid-boranes.

We report a simple one-pot synthesis of enantiomerically enriched alkyl- and arylphenylphosphinous acid-borane starting from readily available (R(P))-(-)-menthylhydrogenophenylphosphinate and organolithium reagents.

Racemization and transesterification of alkyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinates

AbstractIn this article, we explore, both theoretically and experimentally, the general reactivity of alkyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinates with alcohols. We show that alcohol molecules act exclusively as nucleophilic species, and add to alkyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinates, leading to pentacoordinated intermediates. These intermediates are shown to subsequently competitively undergo alcohol eliminations and/or Berry pseudorotations. This offers several possible routes for racemizations and/or alcohol exchange reactions. Transition standard Gibbs free energies predicted from DFT calculations for the overall alcohol exchange mechanism are shown to be compatible with those experimentally measured in case ethanol reacts with ethyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinate (134.5∼136.0xa0kJ mol−1 at 78xa0°C).n Graphical abstractᅟ