Synthesis and properties of polystyrene-supported dppa ligands

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Leah Thompson, leahcthompson@gmail.com, Katie Hoppert, and Richard Tarkka. Department of Chemistry, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035
The promise of environmentally benign catalysts has lead to numerous investigations of solid-supported phosphine ligands. Nevertheless, reports of polymer-supported versions of the common ligands 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphinoethane) (dppe) and 1,2-bis (diphenylphosphinopropane) (dppp) have not yet appeared. We report the synthesis of bis(diphenylphospinomethyl)amine (dppa), a ligand structurally related to dppp, directly on amine-functionalized polystyrene (PS) synthesis beads. The characterization of the bead supported ligand both with and without complexed Ni(II) is also presented.