A. Chaudhry et al., INTRAMOLECULAR NUCLEOPHILIC-SUBSTITUTION BY PHOSPHINATE AND THIOPHOSPHINATE ANIONS - RELATIVE RATES OF FORMATION OF 5-MEMBERED AND 6-MEMBERED RINGS, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (1), 1995, pp. 83-84
In CH2Cl2 solution the phosphinate anion BrCH2CH2(CH2)(n)CH2(Ph)P(OO-
cyclises only 4.3 times faster when n = 0 (five-membered ring product)
than when n = 1; for the thiophosphinate anion ClCH2CH2(CH2)(n)CH2(Ph
)P(SO- cyclisation (via sulfur) is still only 30 times faster when n =
0 than when n = 1.