With the aim of utilizing wood as a carbon cycle-oriented material, improvement hydrophobicity has been actively studied to solve manufacturing problems, such dimensional stability and biodeterioration resistance. The introduction benzyl group is promising chemical modification for hydrophobizing wood. However, conventional benzylation methods are not suitable industrial applications because th...

The Pd-catalyzed direct alkylation of H-phosphinic acids and hypophosphorous acid with allylic/benzylic alcohols has been described previously. Here, the extension of this methodology to H-phosphinate esters is presented. The new reaction appears general, although its scope is narrower than with the acids, and its mechanism is likely different. Various alcohols are examined in their reaction wi...