In general, if the atoms that make up the ring contain heteroatoms, such rings become heterocycles, and organic compounds containing heterocycles are called heterocyclic compounds. An article called Biphilic Organophosphorus-Catalyzed Intramolecular Csp2-H Amination: Evidence for a Nitrenoid in Catalytic Cadogan Cyclizations, published in 2018-02-28, which mentions a compound: 707-61-9, Name is 4-Methyl-1-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-phosphole 1-oxide, Molecular C11H13OP, Synthetic Route of C11H13OP.
A small-ring phosphacycloalkane (1,2,2,3,4,4-hexamethylphosphetane) (I) catalyzes intramol. C-N bond forming heterocyclization of o-nitrobiaryls and o-nitrostyrenes in the presence of a hydrosilane terminal reductant. The method provides scalable access to diverse carbazole and indole compounds under operationally trivial homogeneous organocatalytic conditions, as demonstrated by 17 examples conducted on 1 g scale. In situ NMR reaction monitoring studies support a mechanism involving catalytic PIII/PV=O cycling, where tricoordinate phosphorus compound I represents the catalytic resting state. For the catalytic conversion of o-nitrobiphenyl to carbazole, the kinetic reaction order was determined for phosphetane catalyst I (first order), substrate (first order), and phenylsilane (zeroth order). For differentially 5-substituted 2-nitrobiphenyls, the transformation is accelerated by electron-withdrawing substituents (Hammett factor ρ = +1.5), consistent with the accrual of neg. charge on the nitro substrate in the rate-determining step. DFT modeling of the turnover-limiting deoxygenation event implicates a rate-determining (3 + 1) cheletropic addition between the phosphetane catalyst and 2-nitrobiphenyl substrate to form an unobserved pentacoordinate spiro-bicyclic dioxazaphosphetane, which decomposes via (2 + 2) cycloreversion giving 1 equiv of phosphetane P-oxide and 2-nitrosobiphenyl. Exptl. and computational investigations into the C-N bond forming event suggest the involvement of an oxazaphosphirane (2 + 1) adduct between I and 2-nitrosobiphenyl, which evolves through loss of phosphetane P-oxide to give the observed carbazole product via C-H insertion in a nitrene-like fashion.
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