Phosphetene: Synthesis and reactivity

Hortense Lauwick (1) , Matthew P Duffy (1) , Pierre-Antoine Bouit (1) , Muriel Hissler (1)

1 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

Four-membered ring heterocycles are less studied than five or six-membered heterocycles. It is even more true for 4-membered P-rings and in particular their unsaturated congeners, namely phosphetenes. In this review, we report the main synthetic strategies developed to prepare such compounds. The study of their reactivity, either in organic transformations or coordination chemistry, illustrates that share both specific reactivities of unsaturated strained cycles and phosphanes making them versatile synthons for original organophosphorus derivatives.

Mots clés: Organophosphorus; dihydrophosphete; strained cycles; P-heterocycles; coordination chemistry

Domaines: Chimie organique

Hortense Lauwick, Matthew P Duffy, Pierre-Antoine Bouit, Muriel Hissler. Phosphetene: Synthesis and reactivity. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021, 433, pp.213759. ⟨10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213759⟩. ⟨hal-03134079⟩