“…After 1 h of stirring at 25 • C, the solvent was removed, and the reaction mixture was dissolved in n-hexane (10 mL) at 60 • C. This solution was transferred through syringe filters into another Schlenk flask and stored in a freezer (−30 • C) in the glove box to obtain colorless crystals (F, 44 mg, 0.125 mmol, 94%). 1 H NMR (601 MHz, C 6 D 6 ): δ = 7.89 (dd, 3 J = 12.8, 7.6 Hz, 2H, H-3), 7.12-6.98 (m, 10H, H-4,5 and H-9,10,11), 6.95 (dd, 3 J = 7.6, 4 J = 3.3 Hz, 2H, H-6), 6.84 (s (br), 4H, H-8,12), 6.30 (dq, 1 J P-H = 396.4 Hz, 2 J PH-BH3 = 6.7 Hz, 1H, PH), 2.13 (d, 1 J BH = 126.9 Hz, 3H, BH 3 ) ppm. Lithium bis(biphenyl-2-yl)phosphide (E) In the glove box, phosphine D (20.0 mg, 59.7 µmol) was dissolved in benzene (10 mL) and n-butyllithium (0.50 mL, 125 µmol, 2.5 M in hexanes) was added at 25 • C. The reaction mixture was stirred for 2 h and the supernatant was filtered through syringe filters.…”