The Bis(pentafluoroethyl)phosphinous acid (C2F5)2POH.

The industrial product (C(2)F(5))(3)PF(2) is transformed into the phosphinic acid chloride (C(2)F(5))(2)P(O)Cl, which reacts with an excess of Bu(3)SnH in a clean, multistep reaction to give the stannyl derivative (C(2)F(5))(2)POSnBu(3). Subsequent treatment with gaseous HBr leads to the formation of (C(2)F(5))(2)POH, which is isolated in 70 % yield. Besides (CF(3))(2)POH, bis(pentafluoroethyl)phosphinous acid, (C(2)F(5))(2)POH, represents the second known example of a phosphinous acid that is predicted by using density functional theory calculations at the B3PW91/6-311G(3d,p) level to be more stable than the phosphane oxide tautomer, the energy difference being 11.7 kJ mol(-1). Only the phosphinous acid isomer is detectable in the gas phase and in solution. However, investigations of the neat liquid reveal a temperature-dependent tautomeric equilibrium with the phosphane oxide isomer (C(2)F(5))(2)P(O)H, which is characterized by vibrational and multinuclear NMR spectroscopic methods in combination with quantum-chemical calculations.

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