Organophosphorus Chemistry -- Contents -- 1 Phosphines and Phosphonium Salts -- 1 Phosphines -- 1.1 Preparation -- 1.1.1 From Halogenophosphines and Organometallic Reagents -- 1.1.2 Preparation of Phosphines from Metallated Phosphines -- 1.1.3 Preparation of Phosphines by Addition of P-H to Unsaturated Compounds -- 1.1.4 Preparation of Phosphines by Reduction -- 1.1.5 Miscellaneous Methods of Preparing Phosphines -- 1.2 Reactions of Phosphines -- 1.2.1 Nucleophilic Attack at Carbon -- 1.2.2 Nucleophilic Attack at Halogen -- 1.2.3 Nucleophilic Attack at Other Atoms -- 1.2.4 Miscellaneous Reactions of Phosphines -- 2 Phosphine Oxides -- 2.1 Preparation -- 2.2 Reactions -- 2.3 Structural and Physical Aspects -- 2.4 Phosphine Chalcogenides as Ligands -- 3 Phosphonium Salts -- 3.1 Preparation -- 3.2 Reactions -- 4 π-Bonded Phosphorus Compounds -- 5 Phosphirenes, Phospholes and Phosphinines -- References -- 2 Pentacoordinated and Hexacoordinated Compounds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Acyclic Phosphoranes -- 3 Monocyclic Phosphoranes -- 4 Bicyclic and Tricyclic Phosphoranes -- 5 Hexacoordinate Phosphorus Compounds -- References -- 3 Tervalent Phosphorus Acid Derivatives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Halogenophosphines -- 3 Tervalent Phosphorus Esters -- 3.1 Phosphinites -- 3.2 Phosphonites -- 3.3 Phosphites -- 4 Tervalent Phosphorus Amides -- 4.1 Aminophosphines -- 4.2 Phosphoramidites and Related Compounds -- References -- 4 Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mononucleotides -- 2.1 Nucleoside Acyclic Phosphates -- 2.1.1 Mononucleoside Phosphate Derivatives -- 2.1.2 Polynucleoside Monophosphate Derivatives -- 2.2 Nucleoside Pyrophosphates -- 2.2.1 Nucleoside Diphosphate Analogues -- 2.2.2 Nucleoside Diphosphosugars -- 2.2.3 Nucleoside Cyclic Pyrophosphates -- 2.2.4 Nucleoside Pyrophosphonates -- 3 Nucleoside Polyphosphates -- References.

5 Ylides and Related Species -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phosphonium Ylides -- 2.1 Theoretical, Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Phosphorus Ylides and the Wittig Reaction -- 2.2 Synthesis and Characterisation of Phosphonium Ylides -- 2.3 Ylides Coordinated to Transition Metals -- 2.4 Reactions of Phosphonium Ylides -- 2.4.1 Reactions with Carbonyl Compounds -- 2.4.2 Miscellaneous Reactions -- 2.5 The Synthesis and Reactions of Aza-Wittig Reagents -- 3 Structure and Reactivity of Lithiated Phosphine Oxide Anions -- 4 Structure and Reactivity of Phosphonate Anions -- References -- 6 Phosphazenes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linear Phosphazenes -- 3 Cyclophosphazenes -- 4 Polyphosphazenes -- 5 Crystal Structures of Phosphazenes and Related Compounds -- References -- Author Index.