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Article citation: R. Alan Aitken, Chem. Commun., 2009, DOI: 10.1039/b913107h

Thermal rearrangement of thiocarbonyl-stabilised triphenylphosphonium ylides leading to (Z)-1-diphenylphosphino-2-phenylsulfenylalkenes

R. Alan Aitken, Graham Dawson, Neil S. Keddie, Helmut Kraus, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Joanne Wheatley and J. Derek Woollins

While thermolysis of thiocarbonyl-stabilised phosphonium ylides generally results in extrusion of Ph3PS to give alkynes, those with a PCH function instead undergo a novel P to S transfer of a phenyl group to give (Z)-configured 1-phosphino-2-sulfenylalkenes of interest as bidentate ligands.

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