Nandi Partha, Dye James L, Bentley Philip, Jackson James E
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Org Lett. 2009 Apr 16;11(8):1689-92. doi: 10.1021/ol900222v.
Alkali metals absorbed in silica gel (the M-SG reagents) efficiently cleave C-P bonds in triaryl- and diarylphosphines. The resulting alkali metal phosphides can serve as useful building blocks for a variety of phosphines. Alkyldiarylphosphines undergo exclusive aryl group cleavage.
