“…It has been reported that nucleophilic substitution at a (thio)phosphoryl (P=S/O) center generally proceeds either through stepwise mechanism with a trigonal bipyramidal pentacoordinated (TBP-5C) intermediate (upper route) or an S N 2 mechanism with TBP-5C transition state (TS) (lower route), Scheme 1. (Skoog and Jencks 1984, Thatcher and Kluger 1989, Hosfield et al 1999, Guha et al 2000, Williams 2000, Chapados et al 2001, Harger 2002, Hengge 2002, 2005, Humphry et al 2004, Swamy and Kumar 2006, Um and Kumar. 2006…”