“…In comparison there are relatively few examples in the chemical literature of unsymmetrical, potentially bidentate bisphosphines containing P-C-C-X-P backbones, where X = C, 1,2 Si, 3,4 O, 5-11 or S, 12 fewer still where X = N, [13][14][15] and no examples, to the best of our knowledge, where transition metal complexes have been prepared using preformed P-C-C-N-P backboned ligands. Six-membered P-C-C-O-P-M metallacycles (where M = Pd 16, 17 and Pt 17 ) and platinum() and palladium() P-C-C-N-P-M metallacycles have previously been reported 18 19 a series of Group 10 metallacycles formed by reaction of Ph 2 PCl or PhPCl 2 with phosphino-enolate complexes [20][21][22] and the elimination/rearrangement reaction of a palladium complex bearing a phosphino-hydroquinone ligand in an acidic medium 23 We recently described the synthesis of Ph 2 PNHC 6 H 4 PPh 2 an unsymmetrical diphosphine derived from 2-(diphenylphosphino)aniline 25 and have shown that the difference in basicity or the steric properties of the two different phosphorus atoms of Ph chloride-bridged dimers in thf leads to monometallic species in which the diphosphine ligand binds to the metal only via the amino-phosphine moiety. Subsequent dissolution of these complexes in other solvents e.g.…”