A series of diarylamido phosphine ligands of the type N-(2-dihydrocarbylphosphinophenyl)- 2, 6-dialkylanilide 1a–d have been prepared and employed to investigate the coordination chemistry of zinc. Protonolysis of ZnMe2 with one equivalent of N-(2- diphenylphosphinophenyl)-2, 6-dimethylaniline (H [1a]) produced a mixture of [1a] ZnMe (2a) and Zn [1a] 2 (4a), whereas that involving ZnEt2 gave exclusively the three- ...
