Why compete when you can share? Competitive reactivity of germanium and phosphorus with selenium.
Addition of one equivalent of selenium to a germanium-phosphanide complex results in insertion of selenium into the Ge-P bond, not oxidation at germanium or phosphorus. Addition of excess selenium results in oxidation at phosphorus, although of germanium oxidation is still observed.
Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK.
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