Stereoselective preparation of phosphine oxides via a 2,3-sigmatropic shift of allylic diphenylphosphinites

✍ Scribed by Stéphane Demay; Klaus Harms; Paul Knochel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 240 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(99)00952-1

✦ Synopsis

The thermic rearrangement of various chiral or racemic ailylic diphenylphosphinites to allylic phosphine oxides has been applied for the preparation of several chiral diphosphine oxides of interest for asymmetric catalysis.