New adventures in the molecular chemistry of phosphorus.
Teaching old dogs new tricks: Recent developments in low-coordinate phosphorus chemistry reveal the capacity of this element for surprises. For example, P for CR substitution in new phosphaalkynes was used to stabilize purported intermediates in an important synthetic transformation, and also to form new diphosphacyclobutadiene sandwich complexes (see scheme).
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK. chris.russell@bris.ac.uk
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