The reactions of nickel(0) complexes with phosphine, bipyridine-type, and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands aryl, vinyl, alkyl halides is reviewed.

Phosphine-catalyzed [3+2]cycloaddition reactions of electron-deficient allenes and alkynes with a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds can give access to important highly functionalized cyclopentenes. The seminal example of such a transformation was first reported by Lu et al. in 1995, and its asymmetric version in 1997 by the group of Zhang. However, it took another ten years before the potential ...

In the title compound, C(21)H(21)O(3)P, the whole mol-ecule is disordered over two sets of positions with refined occupancies of 0.503 (1) and 0.497 (1). The dihedral angles between the three benzene rings are 72.9 (2)°, 82.9 (3)° and 70.0 (2)° in the major disorder component and the corresponding angles in the minor disorder component are 85.0 (2)°, 79.2 (2)° and 72.3 (2)°. The crystal structu...

A homoleptic phosphine adduct of thallium(I) supported by a tris(phosphino)borate ligand has been isolated and structurally characterized.

We report the simple synthesis of poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG)-derivatized phosphine oxide ligands for water-dispersible metal oxide nanocrystals.

Here we describe a coumarin-phosphine dye that undergoes activation of coumarin fluorescence upon reaction with S-nitrosothiols.

Dinickel bisphenoxyiminato complexes based on highly substituted p- and m-terphenyl backbones were synthesized, and the corresponding atropisomers were isolated. In the presence of a phosphine scavenger, Ni(COD)2, the phosphine-ligated syn-dinickel complexes copolymerized α-olefins and ethylene in the presence of amines to afford 0.2-1.3% α-olefin incorporation and copolymerized amino olefins a...

Field trials carried out upon the second more poisonous compound, bis dimethylamino fluoro phosphine oxide, proved its exceptional effectiveness as an insecticide and since an economic process for its manufacture had been developed and a ready sale of the product was assured, there was ample incentive for its early manufacture. Moreover, the plant erected earlier for the small-scale manufacture...

We present a novel and highly efficient methodology that allows for the construction of C-P bonds via the palladium-catalyzed air-based oxidative coupling of various commercially available arylboronic acids with easily oxidized H-phosphine oxides leading to valuable aryl phosphine oxides, particularly triarylphosphine oxides, with the use of air as the green oxidant, broad substrate applicabili...

Chiral ferrocene-based phosphine-imine ligands 1–3 and sulfur-imine ligand 4 were applied in the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation of cycloalkenyl esters. The results revealed that the substitutents in aryl ring, ferrocenylmethyl and benzyliene position strongly affected the enantioselective induction of phosphine-imine ligands, and the most stereoselective ligand was ferrocenyl...