GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
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Abstract
The phosphorus-carbon coupling constant 3JCCNP was found to be sensitive to the relative configuration of pentacoordinate spirophosphorane diastereoisomers, while the 2JCNP value remained almost unchanged. The 3JCCNP value of the spirophosphorane with ΛP configuration at phosphorus was obviously larger than that with ΔP configuration. The rule, 3JCCNP (ΛP) > 3JCCNP (ΔP), for pentacoordinate spirophosphorane diastereoisomers was used to assign the configurations of new alkoxy spirophosphorane derivatives, and satisfactory results were achieved. The results showed that the coupling constant 3JCCNP might be used as a reliable probe for the configuration of pentacoordinate spirophosphorane derivatives.