A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute , Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Irkutsk, Russia
Abstract:
White phosphorus reacts with allyl bromide in the system KOH-dioxane-H 2 O at room temperature to form tris(propen-2-yl), bis(propen-2-yl)(E-propen-1-yl), and bis(E-propen-1-yl)(propen-2-yl)phosphine oxides in a total quantitative yield, their molar ratio being 1:0.5:0.1.