“…To the best of our knowledge, only four aryl-substituted triphosphiranes are reported in the literature. P 3 Ph 3 was described as early as 1973 as a labile solid with respect to P 5 Ph 5 ,20 and it has been shown that this compound is part of an equilibrium mixture consisting of different oligomers with ring sizes of n = 3, 4, 5, 6 21. Tokitoh et al synthesized (Anth = 9-anthryl, Bbt = 2,6-bis[bis-(trimethylsilyl)methyl]-4-[tris(trimethylsilyl)phenyl]) in good yield by heating a mixture of AnthPPBbt and n Bu 3 PTe 22.…”