The phosphorylation of a series of diaminopyridines (2,3-, 3,4-, 2,5-and 2,6-diaminopyridine), with various molecular equivalents of chlorodiphenylphosphine in the presence of TEA has been studied. Notably, phosphorylation of 2,3-and 3,4-diaminopyridine affords compounds with diphosphinoamine (P-N-P) and iminobiphosphine (N=P-P) entities coexisting in the same molecule. Phosphorylations of 2,5-and[a]