Crabbe Michelle H, O'Meara Danielle, Kennedy Alan R, Weetman Catherine E, Mulvey Robert E
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2025 Jun 24;61(52):9436-9439. doi: 10.1039/d5cc02154e.
Made by a co-complexation reaction, heterobimetallic [(TMEDA)Li(μ-PPh)K(TMEDA)(THF)] has been crystallographically and spectroscopically characterised, modelled by DFT calculations, and its performance compared against those of its homometallic phosphide components in preliminary studies of its application in catalytic hydrophosphination reactions of a representative alkene.