Jean-François Colom Toro, François Rivière, Jean-Gérard Wolf, Michel Sanchez and Vadim D. Romanenko
A new approach to tridentate chelating NPN, NPO and OPO ligand systems is described via a tandem reaction of easily available 1,5-bis(dialkylamino)pentamethinium salts (streptocyanine dyes) with diphenylphosphine in the presence of TfOH.