Enhancing the dienic reactivity of phospholes: An access to chiral 7-phosphanorbornenes

AbstractChiral 7-phosphanorbornenes were synthesized by [4 + 2] cycloaddition of 1-(-)-menthyloxymethyl-1-monophosphole-1-oxide or 1-(-)-menthyloxymethyl-1-monophosphole-1-sulfide with N-phenylmale...