PAPER	Synthesis 2006: 3080-3084   DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-950203
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
AIBN-Initiated Radical Reactions of Ethyl Phosphinate
Monika I. Antczak, Jean-Luc Montchamp*
Department of Chemistry , Texas Christian University, Box 298860, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA Fax: +1(817)2575851; e-Mail: j.montchamp@tcu.edu;
Received 27 February 2006

Abstract

Ethyl phosphinate adds to alkenes and alkynes under thermal radical conditions with AIBN as the initiator.

Key words

phosphorus - free radical - phosphinates - AIBN - hypophosphite