title: Room temperature hydrophosphination using a simple iron salen pre-catalyst.
abstract: Phosphines are fundamentally important to the fine chemicals, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Reported is the first example of alkene hydrophosphination using a designed iron pre-catalyst which yields the anti-Markovnikov products in high yield at room temperature. The phosphine products are excellent pro-ligands for Fe-catalyzed Negishi cross-coupling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. r.l.webster@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Webster