Mei-jie Bu, Guo-ping Lu and Chun Cai
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016,6, 413-416
DOI:
10.1039/C5CY01541C,
Communication
A method for photocatalytic oxidative coupling of diaryl phosphine oxide and arylacetylene under mild conditions was developed. Rhodamine B, an inexpensive and commercially available organic dye, was used as the photocatalyst. This protocol realizes a regioselective 1,2-difunctionalization of arylacetylenes and provides a metal-free access toward a series of β-ketophosphine oxides.