Here we describe that far from the commonly held assumption that primary phosphines are a dangerous family of chemicals, many in fact are completely air-stable and have potential as industrial catalysts for pharmaceutical production; we also present a rationale as to why some of these compounds are air-sensitive and some are air-stable based on computational methodology.

First Author: Fairlamb, Ian J. S.; Lynam, Jason M.; Humphrey, M. G.; Cifuentes, Mariana; Liddle, Stephen W.; Higham, Lee; Wheatley, Andrew E. H.; Wright, Dominic S.; Layfield, Richard A.; O'Hara, Charles
Attributed to:  The Primary Phosphine Renaissance funded by EPSRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Organometallic Chemistry (2011)

ISBN: 978-1-84973-280-2