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Chem Commun (Camb)
; (23): 2892-3, 2003 Dec 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14680227
ABSTRACT
Comparative studies on the reactivity of a transiently formed terminal phosphinidene complex towards various organobromide derivatives show that carbon-bromine bond insertion is preferred with benzyl bromide, whereas formal HBr-insertion resulted with 2-bromopyridine and a surprising selectivity enhancement (of the phosphinidene complex) was observed with bromobenzene; all new products were established by elemental analyses, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and single crystal X-ray diffraction studies.