Air-stable, highly fluorescent primary phosphanes

Laura H Davies; Beverly Stewart; Ross W Harrington; William Clegg; Lee J Higham

doi:10.1002/anie.201108416

Air-stable, highly fluorescent primary phosphanes

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 May 14;51(20):4921-4. doi: 10.1002/anie.201108416. Epub 2012 Mar 19.

Authors

Laura H Davies¹, Beverly Stewart, Ross W Harrington, William Clegg, Lee J Higham

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Abstract

Light without fright: a synthetic route to fluorescent primary phosphanes (RPH(2)) that are resistant to air oxidation both in the solid state and in chloroform solution is described. These versatile precursors undergo hydrophosphination to give tripodal ligands and subsequently fluorescent transition-metal complexes.