“…During the past decade, ligand design for homogeneous catalysts has advanced from simple bidentate diphosphines and diamines to mixed donor atom moieties, such as phosphino-ethers, phosphino-thioethers, and aminophosphines . These catalytic systems have been applied to hydroformylation, hydrogenation, and hydrosilylation reactions. − Numerous configurations of phosphorus−nitrogen ( P , N ) ligands have been reported and can be generically divided into two categories, namely, those based on structurally rigid sp 2 nitrogen centers, e.g., unsaturated pyridine and imine groups, or sp 3 nitrogen centers, which constitute saturated amine functionalities. , For sp 3 N-based ligands, rigidity is enforced either using a short (e.g., four atom) chain chelate 8 or usually by inserting a phenyl, pyridyl, ferrocenyl, or other functionalities containing π-bonding into the ligand backbone…”