@article{ff7acadbb4424c68b98ce1b3fd33fc6e,
title = "Synthesis and redox properties of a diphosphene carrying a redox-active sterically protecting group",
abstract = "The 2,6-dimesityl-4-[bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]phenyl group was developed as a sterically protecting group carrying a reversible redox site at the 4-position and was applied to the construction of a novel redox system composed of the diphosphene and triarylamine units.",
keywords = "Electrochemistry, Mines, Phosphorus compounds, Ullmann reactions",
author = "Kyoko Tsuji and Shigeru Sasaki and Masaaki Yoshifuji",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support by Tokuyama Science Foundation, The Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Nos. 08454193 and 09239101) are gratefully acknowledged. Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. is also thanked for a donation of silicon chemicals. The authors also thank the Instrumental Analysis Center for Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, for the measurement of mass spectra and 600 MHz NMR spectra, and for undertaking elemental analysis.",
year = "1999",
month = apr,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1016/S0040-4039(99)00466-9",
language = "English",
volume = "40",
pages = "3203--3206",
journal = "Tetrahedron Letters",
issn = "0040-4039",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
number = "16",
}