Building a lewis acidic phosphorus

• Main Authors: Tay, Madelyn Qin Yi, Lu, Yunpeng, Ganguly, Rakesh, Frison, Gilles, Ricard, Louis, Vidović, Dragoslav, Carmichael, Duncan
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106747; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25066
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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.