View Article Online/Journal Homepage/Table of Contents for this issue through a Homer- type elimination, 7 yielding N-phenyldiphenylphosphonamide and a bicyclic azaphosphole heterocycle. Aqueous work-up of the reaction would hydrolyse the PN bond of the azaphosphole and, finally, a 1, 3-proton shift would afford the cyclopentenone 2. We suggest that a tandem reaction occurs, which is driven by an alkyldiarylphosphazene involving ...
