Limitation controls reactivity — structural constraint of phosphorus has now enabled the development of a phosphine-catalysed transfer hydrogenation process akin to transition metals.
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Coyle, E., O'Brien, C. Bonsai phosphorus. Nature Chem 4, 779–780 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1470
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