A novel and efficient Ni-catalyzedcoupling of a wide range of arylboronic acids with H-phosphites, H-phosphinate esters, and H-phosphine oxides has been developed, providing a general and powerful tool for the synthesis of various aryl-phosphorus compounds, especially for valuable triarylphosphine oxides, in good to excellent yield. This protocol is the first Ni-catalyzed C–P bond-forming reaction
A new method for copper-catalyzed P-C bond formation through reaction of phosphorus nucleophiles with diaryliodonium salts at room temperature is described. Most target products are obtained with this method in high yields within a short reaction time of 10 min. It can be easily adapted to large-scale preparations. When unsymmetrical iodonium salts are employed, nucleophilic substitution occurs preferentially on the sterically hindered aromatic ring or the more electron-deficient ring.
CAIRNS, S. MATTHEW;MCEWEN, WILLIAM E., HETEROATOM CHEM., 1,(1990) N, C. 9-19