“…Though many synthetic approaches toward functional phosphinines have been devised, most of these studies focused on the elaboration of 2,6-disubstituted derivatives and methods providing a convenient access toward 3,5-disubstituted compounds have been much less studied. In most cases, these approaches rely on multistep procedures that are specific from the nature of the functional groups grafted at the 3 and 5 positions. − A few years ago we reported a synthetic strategy, which allows the synthesis of tetrafunctional derivatives. Polyfunctional compounds, − polydentate ligands, , and phosphorus macrocycles − could be easily prepared from disubstituted alkynes and 1,3,2-diazaphosphinine 1 through a cycloaddition/cycloreversion sequence which is depicted in Scheme .…”