“…Undoubtedly, O’Brien’s 2009 report on a catalytic Wittig reaction, in which a silane reduces the phosphine oxide byproduct back to phosphine in situ during the reaction, unleashed the imaginations of researchers around the world . Consequently, the subsequent decade witnessed numerous accounts of catalytic versions of classical P(V)O-generating reactions, including Wittig olefination, Appel reaction, Staudinger reduction, Staudinger ligation, aza-Wittig reaction, Mitsunobu reaction, and Cadogan cyclization, with all employing stoichiometric silanes as terminal reductants. , While studies of redox-driven phosphine oxide catalysis of the aforementioned reactions have continued, − the past two years have been marked by the application of redox-driven phosphine oxide catalysis to lesser-known reactions.…”