Journal of organometallic chemistry

Cleavage of phosphorus-carbon bonds with sodium/naphthalene. Facile preparation of unsymmetrical diphosphines

TS Chou, CH Tsao, SC Hung

Index: Chou, Ta-Shue; Tsao, Chung-Huang; Hung, Su Chun Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 312, p. 53 - 58

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Abstract

Abstract Sodium/naphthalene was found to be a homogeneous, mild and selective reagent for the reductive cleavage of aryl-phosphorus bonds. Such cleavage reactions are very useful in the convenient synthesis of unsymmetrical diphosphines from commercially available and air-stable diphosphines.