“…[18,24,25] Moreover,s mall phosphoruschalcogen heterocycles that displaya symmetryw ithr espect to the 4-membered core are even rarer.T hese include P-S-P-E (Figure 2, G), [26][27][28] P-Ch-P-C (Ch=S, Se, H), [29][30][31] P-S-C-S (I), [32] and P-S-C-C structures (J), [33] amongst others. [34][35][36][37][38][39] Small ring cores that contain asymmetry in the presence of aP ÀPb ond are by far the rarest, with published examples limited to only three species: P-P-C-N (K), [40] P-P-C-O (L), [37] and P-P-Si-N (M). [41] In this context, we report the synthesis of small main group heterocycles containing aP 2 BCh core (3Ch;C h =S, Se) that possess aP ÀPb ond.…”