A straightforward and practical strategy for hydrophosphorylation of electron-deficient alkenes and alkynes to access γ-ketophosphine oxides, enabled by CPE strategy in the absence of a metal, base, and redox reagent, has been described.
first facile and efficient Zn(OTf)2-catalyzed direct coupling of unprotected propargylic alcohols with arylphosphine oxides has been developed, affording a general, one-step approach to access structurally diverse γ-ketophosphine oxides via sequential Meyer–Schuster rearrangement/phospha-Michael reaction along with new C(sp3)—P and C═Obondformations, operational simplicity, and complete atom economy