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Cover Picture: Mild Reduction of Phosphine Oxides with Phosphites To Access Phosphines (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50/2017)
Author(s) -
Li Peng,
Wischert Raphael,
Métivier Pascal
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201710929
Subject(s) - phosphine , phosphorus , chemistry , phosphate , oxygen , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
In 1669, Henning Brand discovered the element phosphorus by reducing phosphate contained in urine under harsh conditions and thus started phosphorus chemistry while not knowing that he was reducing P=O bonds. In their Communication on page 15989 ff., P. Li, P. Métivier, and R. Wischert propose an efficient, mild, and inexpensive method for reducing the P=O bonds in phosphine oxides through oxygen transfer and transmutation with another phosphorus species.