Abstract: | Chloral inserts into the P-Br bond of pyrocatechintribromophosphorane with the formation of stable mono-, di- and tri(1-bromo-2,2,2-trichloroethoxy) phosphoranes and, also, into the P-Br bond of bis (pyrocatechin) bromophosphorane with the formation of 1-bromo-2,2,2-trichloroethoxybis (pyrocatechin) phosphorane.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2819–2823, December, 1989. |