Recent advances in visible-light driven phosphine-mediated transformations

Abstract

While there is a large literature on the use of trivalent phosphines in the activation of electrophilic unsaturated reagents, the application of such derivatives as photoorganoctatalysts for the generation of radical intermediates has received attention only in the recent decade. The present review aims to provide a detailed description of the phosphine-mediated photocatalysed and photoredox catalyzed protocols for the formation of both carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds proposed in the last decade.