Metal organophosphonates have been extensively studied in the literature and have potential and practical applications as ion exchangers, sorbents, sensors, proton conductors, nonlinear optical materials, catalysts and hosts for the intercalation of a broad spectrum of guests. In stark contrast the heavier chalcogen (sulfur, selenium, tellurium) containing homologs of these oxygen containing organophosphonates have attracted far less attention, predominately due to a lack of a reliable synthetic route to these systems.  However, we have recently reported upon new clean and high yielding route to trichalcogeno-phosphonates and related phosphorus-chalcogen systems, involving the insertion reaction of elemental chalcogens into metal phosphide bonds. In this paper, further improvements to this route will be reported along with the structures and coordination chemistry of a number of new phosphorus-chalcogen ligand systems.

Trithio- and triseleno-phosphonates: Heavier chalcogen homologs for organophosphonates

241st National Meeting (2011)

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