Coordination chemistry umpolung: a gallane ligand on a phosphine lewis acceptor

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Jan 23;124(3):382-3. doi: 10.1021/ja012081k.

Abstract

Pentaphenylphosphinophosphonium trifluoromethanesulfonate reacts with amino-iminogall(I)ane to effect quantitative substitution of Ph3P and formation of the first complex of a gallium Lewis base on a phosphine Lewis acid.