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8624079 
Journal Article 
P≡P, a laboratory reagent? 
Russell, CA; , 
2010 
Yes 
Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
ISSN: 1433-7851
EISSN: 1521-3773 
49 
50 
9572-9573 
English 
21080394 
WOS:000285211000005 
Two P or not two P? This bastardization of a well-known Shakespearean phrase is used to highlight recent work that shows that irradiation of white phosphorus produces diphosphorus, P2 (see scheme), which may be reacted in situ in a double Diels-Alder reaction to give cage diphosphines. Copyright © 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. 
diphosphorus; phosphorus; photochemistry; pnicogenes