A new synthesis of bis(acyl)phosphane oxide (BAPO) photoinitiators was developed which can be used to functionalize cellulose nanocrystal surfaces for polymer grafting. Hybrid materials with excellent graft yields can be rapidly obtained under mild and acid-free conditions.

Water-soluble phosphanes were tagged with a light-responding diazo group. Upon UV exposure, the diazo-isomerisation led to phosphane morphology change, resulting in an increase in the reaction rate of an aqueous palladium-catalysed cleavage reaction.

Encapsulated phosphane ligands can be easily constructed through coordinative interactions between Zn(II)-salphen complexes and pyridylphosphane templates; the template has a pronounced impact on the catalyst structure and consequently on the performance in the hydroformylation of 1-octene.

The title compound, [PtCl(C(42)H(78)OP(4))]Cl·0.5CH(2)Cl(2)·4H(2)O, crystallizes as a contact ion-pair with two close inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl(-) contacts between CH acidic αH atoms of the phosphane ligand and the chloride anion. A chloride ligand together with three coordinating P ligand atoms create a slightly distorted square-planar coordination environment around the Pt(II) center. An inter-m...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [RuCl2(C6H6)(C18H27P)]·1.5C6H6, contains one mol-ecule of the Ru(II) complex and one and a half solvent molecules as one of these is located about a centre of inversion. The Ru(II) atom has a classical three-legged piano-stool environment being coordinated by an η(6)-benzene ligand [Ru-centroid = 1.6964 (6) Å], two chloride ligands with an average Ru-C...

Water-soluble cyclodextrins (CDs) bearing two nitrogen atoms as metal coordinating sites have been synthesized. An appropriate phosphane could be included within their cavity through the primary face to form self-assembled PNN supramolecular edifices. Once the PNN ligands were coordinated to platinum, the resulting complexes proved to be very effective as catalysts in a domino reaction, where a...

The title complex, [AgBr(C7H7NS)(C18H15P)2], was obtained from the reaction of silver(I) bromide with benzene-carbo-thio-amide (C7H7NS) and tri-phenyl-phosphane (C18H15P) in the mixed solvent of aceto-nitrile and ethanol. The mononuclear complex exhibits a distorted tetra-hedral coordination geometry about the metal atom, arising from one S atom of a benzene-carbo-thio-amide ligand, two P atoms...

The title compound, [Fe(C(4)H(2)N(2)S(2))(C(3)H(9)P)(2)(CO)(2)], was obtained as a mononuclear by-product during the treatment of [Fe(2)(μ-S(2)C(4)N(2)H(2))(CO)(6)] in excess trimethyl-phosphane. The Fe atom is six-coordinated by two thiol-ate S atoms, two phosphane P atoms and two carbonyl C atoms in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. The average Fe-C(O) distance (1.771 Å) is relatively shorter...