“…1). This conformational preference has been found without exception in the other three vinylphosphine oxides (Pietrusiewicz, Zablocka, Wieczorek & Brandi, 1991;Pietrusiewicz, Zablocka, Kuznikowski et al, 1991;Wieczorek, 1995), two vinylphosphine sulfides Pietrusiewicz et al, 1992), and one vinylphosphine selenide studied by X-ray diffraction, and has also been considered important in the stereoselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of vinylphosphine chalcogenides with nitrones (Brandi et al, 1989(Brandi et al, , 1991. The crystal structure of (I) also reveals that an R…”