A series of electrophilic bis-fluorophosphonium dications dervied from diphosphines with naphthalene- and (oligo)methylene-linkers is presented. The resulting Lewis acidity is demonstrated to depend on the spatial proximity between the P moieties as evidenced in several Lewis acid catalyzed transformations.
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