F. Langer et P. Knochel, A NEW EFFICIENT PREPARATION OF POLYFUNCTIONAL PHOSPHINES USING ZINC ORGANOMETALLICS, Tetrahedron letters, 36(26), 1995, pp. 4591-4594
The reaction of diorganozincs or organozinc halides with chlorophosphi
nes (Ph(n)PCl(3-n)) produces polyfunctional phosphines in high yields.
This method has been used to prepare several chiral phosphines in hig
h enantiomeric purity.