Facile, metal-mediated, (acceptorless) dehydrogenation of tricyclopentyl phosphine directly affords rhodium chelating phosphine–olefin complexes, some of which are catalytically active for 1,4-additions.
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Phosphine–olefin ligands: a facile dehydrogenative route to catalytically active rhodium complexes
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Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK
E-mail: a.s.weller@bath.ac.uk; c.g.frost@bath.ac.uk
E-mail: a.s.weller@bath.ac.uk; c.g.frost@bath.ac.uk
Chem. Commun., 2006, 3408-3410
DOI: 10.1039/B608129K
Received 08 Jun 2006, Accepted 04 Jul 2006
First published online 21 Jul 2006
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