Building a Lewis Acidic Phosphorus

Madelin Qin Yi Tay (1, 2) , Yunpeng Lu (1) , Rakesh Ganguly (1) , Gilles Frison (2) , Louis Ricard (2) , Dragoslav Vidovic (1) , Duncan Carmichael (2)

1 Nanyang Technological University [Singapour]
2 LCM - Laboratoire de chimie moléculaire

Using the σ- and п-donating properties of carbodiphosphorane ligands, we recently synthesized a phosphorus (III)-containing dication. It is observed to undergo interesting reactivity with PMe3, H2O and MeOH.

Keywords: Phosphenium; Carbodiphosphoranes; Two-coordinate; Dication

Domains: Inorganic chemistry; Organic chemistry

Madelin Qin Yi Tay, Yunpeng Lu, Rakesh Ganguly, Gilles Frison, Louis Ricard, et al.. Building a Lewis Acidic Phosphorus. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 2015, 190 (5-6), pp.785-788. ⟨10.1080/10426507.2014.980413⟩. ⟨hal-01096741⟩