Samantha Frank and Christian Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, discuss a new catalytic reaction that uses no transition metals and, for the first time, introduces phosphinines into…

The photolysis of 1-phosphabarrelenes, generated from 3,5-diarylphosphinines and benzyne in a [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction, affords hitherto unknown 2-phosphasemibullvalenes via di-π-methane rearran...

The addition of [2.2.2]cryptand to alkali metal heptaphosphides M3P7 (M = Na, K) leads to the formation of the salts [M([2.2.2]cryptand)][cyclo-P5]. Although the cyclo-P5− anion is spectroscopically ...

Easily accessible dichloroarsanes are suitable precursors for the synthesis of rarely explored triazaarsoles, the arsenic analogues of tetrazoles and triazaphospholes. Calculations on the DFT level g...

Reaction of the ionic liquid [NEt3Me][Cl3] with white phosphorus (P4) gives, quantitatively, hexachlorophosphate [NEt3Me][PCl6]. This compound shows similar reactivity as PCl5, as confirmed for the re...