“…The 1H NMR spectrum (DCCI3) revealed four pairs of methine protons at 3.72 (Ha), 3.34 (Hb), 3.10 (Hc), and 2.83 (Hd), respectively, besides the aromatic protons at 7.38-7.88. Addition of Eu(dpm)3 in varying amounts to a solution (DCCI3) of 244 gave related shifts for Ha, Hb, Hc, and Hd of 1.00, 0.61, 0.46, and 0.38, respectively.333 A similar extrusion of phenylphosphinidene oxide from a bridged phosphine oxide and its insertion into the O-H bond of alcohols was reported earlier by Stille and co-workers.327 It was suggested that such an insertion mechanism was unlikely in view of the large dissociation energy of the O-H bond308 (cf. section…”