SUPERBASE-INDUCED GENERATION OF PHOSPHIDE AND PHOSPHINITE IONS AS APPLIED IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

Abstract A series of new direct reactions of red phosphorus (or white) with organyl halides, alkenes and acetylenes have been developed. Reactions occur in superbasic systems, such as alkali metal hydroxide-dipolar aprotic complexing solvent (DMSO, HMPA) or under phase-transfer conditions to afford earlier inaccessible triorganylphosphines and -phosphine oxides including unsaturated ones in good yields.