The reduction of aryldichlorophosphines in organic solvents was studied by cyclic voltammetry, preparative electrolysis, and chemical reduction. The reaction of the electro chemically generated (2,2´ bipyridine)nickel(0) complexes with aryldichlorophosphines PhPCl 2 and tippPCl 2 (tipp is 2,4,6 triisopropylphenyl) proceeds through the formation of highly reac tive organophosphorus intermediates, whose reactions with diphenylacetylene and hex 1 ene afford phosphirene and phosphirane heterocycles, respectively.The search for new highly efficient synthetic methods is one of the principal trends of the chemistry of organo metallic and organophosphorus compounds. 1 The forma tion of element-carbon bonds, especially phospho rus-carbon bond, is an important goal of the modern organoelement chemistry. 2,3 In this context, special at tention is given to the development of novel approaches to the target synthesis of chemical compounds from highly reactive organophosphorus intermediates. Examples of such intermediates are derivatives of low coordinate phos phorus, viz., phosphinidenes [RP:] (phosphorus analogs of carbenes), which play a significant role in the synthesis of earlier unknown organophosphorus and heterocyclic compounds. 3-5 In preparative synthesis these short lived species are used, as a rule, as transition metal complexes. Presently the main and most appropriate method for their generation is the thermal decomposition of the corre sponding tungsten and molybdenum 7 phosphanorborna diene complexes. 6 Many publications are focused to the direct synthesis of various stable metal phosphinidene complexes 7,8 and investigation of their reactivity toward various organic and organoelement compounds. 8,9 Recently discovered reactions of metal phosphinidene species of the new type related to the phosphinidene group transfer from the metal center attracted attention of researchers to the practical use of the nickel complexes in organic and organophos phorus synthesis 9-11 and made it possible to improve the methods for synthesis of biologically active compounds and useful ligands. An alternative method using the [R-P-W(CO) 5 ] intermediates (R = Ar, Alk) and in cluding the step of subsequent demetallation of the ob tained organophosphorus product 4,5,12 is less convenient.A possibility of the direct synthesis of free phosphiranes and phosphirenes has been demonstrated for the first time using as an example the relatively stable nickelphosphin idene complex 9 containing the sterically hindered ligand and the substituent at the phosphorus atom. 10,11 How ever, the synthesis of this complex is difficult and consists of several steps: the formation of primary phosphine [(dtbpe)Ni(P(H)dmp)] (dtbpe is 1,2 bis(di tert butyl phosphino)ethane, and dmp is 2,6 dimesitylphenyl), its subsequent oxidation with tropilium hexafluorophosphate, and further deprotonation with NaN(SiMe 3 ) 2 . 9 Thus, this method is more complicated than the known method for synthesis of phosphanorbornadiene, which prevents its wide propagation in the synt...