Gaobo Hu, Yun Zhang, Jue Su, Zezhou Li, Yuxing Gao and Yufen Zhao
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 8221-8231
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00959F,
Paper
The first facile and practical silver-mediated cascade reaction of arylpropiolic acids with diarylphosphine oxides has been developed, providing a general, one step approach to structurally sophisticated 2-phosphinobenzo[b]phosphole oxide frameworks of importance in materials science via sequential decarboxylative C–P cross-coupling and C–H/P–H functionalization with operational simplicity and excellent functional group compatibility.