“…34 Ragogna has also employed the early methods to prepare phosphinated lignin, which is effective as a metal scavenger. 35 A hydrophosphination that, unsurprisingly, does not need any activating agents or a catalyst is the reaction of PH 3 with the highly activated imine 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2imine, generating 4.75 g (96% yield) of the geminal substituted NH 2 ,PH 2 product from a large-scale synthesis. 36 In contrast, many hydrophosphination reactions involving PH 3 have employed transition metal catalysts; Pringle undertook the seminal work in this field and used platinum chloride salts, as well as tetrakis(phosphino) Pt, Pd, and Ni complexes for the reaction of formaldehyde with PH 3 .…”