Talk:Phosphetane

Wiki Education assignment: Main Group Chemistry

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 October 2022 and 22 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): TheMebaniteChemist (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by TheMebaniteChemist (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Course work

@TheMebaniteChemist: I can see that the content you're adding is of good quality, but you to will have to add references fairly soon if you are to avoid issues. You've chosen quite a complicated example for the diene addition. I wonder if that reaction is in anyway related to the McCormack reaction (our page on that is poor, de.wiki is better). Project Osprey (talk) 12:54, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References have been mostly added, though I'm still working through the coordination chemistry references. They should be finished shortly. The structure portion is not complete either, but will be very soon, I just need to generate the figures. TheMebaniteChemist (talk) 15:39, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The McCormack reaction may be tangentially related in that it is claimed to proceed through a phosphenium intermediate, but if that's true I would doubt the direct formation of the phosphorane product shown. In my opinion is fundamentally different since it's a concerted, pericyclic mechanism, whereas the McBride synthesis from dienes is necessarily a stepwise, electrophilic addition process that proceeds through carbocation intermediates. TheMebaniteChemist (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]