Abstract
The title compound has been obtained from the one-pot reaction of benzene-1,2-dicarbonitrile with NaH followed by addition of two equivalents of tBuPCl2. The compound is obtained as an orange-red solid in good yield and has been characterized by spectroscopic and analytical methods including the determination of the molecular structure by single-crystal X-ray techniques.
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