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Chem. Commun., 2009,�6637 - 6639, DOI: 10.1039/b914370j

The regioselective photochemical rearrangement of -[PN^tBu]₄

Henrike Bladt, Silvia Gonzalez Calera, Jonathan M. Goodman, Robert J. Less, Vesal Naseri, Alexander Steiner and Dominic S. Wright

The photochemical dyotropic (two-bond shift) rearrangement of the phosphazane cage

-[PN^tBu]₄ ( 1

) into the isomer

-[PN^tBu]₄ ( 1

) occurs via a multi-step radical mechanism; the structures of the

and

isomers are directly analogous to isovalent

- and

-As₄S₄ and P₄S₄.

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