diphosphine

Definitions

noun uncountable, inorganic chemistry The liquid hydride of phosphorus P2H4 which is spontaneously inflammable in air
noun countable, organic chemistry Any organic compound that has two phosphine groups

di- +‎ phosphine

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The transition metal, rhodium for example, in figure 4, which binds the chiral diphosphine, has the ability to simultaneously bind both H2 and the substrate.

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The ligand later used in Monsanto's industrial synthesis of L-DOPA was the diphosphine ligand DiPAMP.

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In 1980 Noyori and co-workers published an article on the synthesis of both enantiomers of the diphosphine ligand BINAP (figure 6).

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