“…Moreover, of note is the fact that, as illustrated in Scheme 53, single hydrophosphination of unsymmetrical diynes was successfully achieved, with high regio-and stereocontrol, by performing the reactions at −78 • C with an equimolar amount of diphenylphosphine. Double hydrophosphination reactions of 1,3-diynes RC≡CC≡CR (R = Me, t Bu, SiMe 3 , Ph, 2,4,6-C 6 H 2 Me 3 ) with diphenylphosphine catalyzed by the phosphido-calcium complex [Ca(THF) 4 (PPh 2 ) 2 ] were additionally described by Westerhausen and colleagues [142,143]. A low selectivity was, in general, observed, the reactions leading to complex mixtures containing the corresponding 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,3-dienes 99 (major products), along with the 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,3-dienes 100 (the four possible stereoisomers) and, in some cases, the allenic derivative 101 (see Figure 13).…”