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A new route to mercury-containing triphenylphosphonium salts with electron-withdrawing groups at the P atom and some transformations of these compounds
Nevstruev,Moskalenko,Boev,Porokhnya
, p. 530 - 535 (2004)
(Aroylmethyl)triphenylphosphonium salts react with mercury(II) trifluoroacetate with replacement of the labile methylene hydrogen atom by the HgOCOCF3 group to give mercury-containing triphenylphosphonium salts in quantitative yields. Treatment of the mercurated salts with potassium carbonate yields mercury-containing triphenylphosphonium ylides of symmetrical and unsymmetrical structures, which enter Wittig reaction with aromatic aldehydes to form the corresponding mercurated olefins (Z isomers) and triphenylphosphine oxide.
