Yield (engineering)

Organic chemistry

Combinatorial chemistry

Chemistry

Metallurgy

Materials science

Mitsunobu reaction

Nitro

Diphenylphosphine oxide

Oxide

Alkyl

Redox

Green Chemistry

An immobilized, recyclable (2-hydroxybenzyl)diphenylphosphine oxide analogue has been synthesized and used in the redox-neutral Mitsunobu inversion of secondary alcohols with nitro substituted benzoic acids (up to 97% yield and 98% specificity).

Development of a robust immobilized organocatalyst for the redox-neutral mitsunobu reaction