The synthesis and properties of a new series of 1,9-diamino-substituted phenalene complexes of the cyclotriphosphazene ring system i s described. One of the compounds is shown to be amphoteric, and this behavior allows an examination of the response of the phosphazene linkage to variations in exocyclic charge density at the spiro center in a plane perpendicular to the cyclotriphosphazene ring s...

Phosphazene polymers are classically synthesized by the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of [PCl2N]3, followed by the functionalization of [PCl2N]n with desired side groups. Despite their versatile properties, phosphazene polymers are not widely used because of the inefficiency in the synthesis through the ROP process and difficulties in handling the [PCl2N]n. The overall goal of this research...

In the title spiro-phosphazene derivative, C33H46N9OP3, the phosphazene and six-membered N/O rings are in flattened chair and twisted-boat conformations, respectively. The naphthalene ring system and the pyridine ring are oriented at a dihedral angle of 41.82 (4)°. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules related by translation along the a axis into chains. C-H⋯π inter-acti...

The title compound, C17H14Cl4N5OP3, is a spiro-phosphazene derivative with bulky naphthalene and pyridine rings. The phosphazene and the six-membered N/O rings are in flattened-boat and twisted-boat conformations, respectively. The naphthalene ring system and the pyridine ring are oriented at a dihedral angle of 18.06 (8)°. In the crystal, weak π-π stacking between the pyridine rings and betwee...

A novel solution processable phosphorescent dendrimer based on cyclic phosphazene (CP) cores has been prepared and used as emissive layers in simple OLED architectures, providing efficiencies of 24.0 cd A(-1) and 16.7 lm W(-1).

Uniform carbon spheres with hollow core and porous shell structures were controllably fabricated through carbonizing fine core/shell particles of polystyrene/cross-linked poly(cyclotriphosphazene-co-4,4'-sulfonyldiphenol), obtained by a simple template approach.

During a search for conditions appropriate for Pt-catalyzed CO reduction using dihydrogen directly, metal-free conditions were discovered instead. A bulky, strong phosphazene base forms a "frustrated" Lewis pair (FLP) with a trialkylborane in the secondary coordination sphere of a rhenium carbonyl. Treatment of the FLP with dihydrogen cleanly affords multiple hydride transfers and C-C bond form...

Intramolecular cyclization of nitrogen-tethered alkynyl esters catalyzed by phosphazene organosuperbases P2-tBu and P4-tBu was investigated. Both acyclic and cyclic substrates underwent 5-exo-dig and 5-endo-dig cyclization. This reaction is a rare example of the intramolecular addition of enolates of simple esters to alkynes.