“…The Mannich-type condensation of phosphines appears to be a powerful method of constructing heterocyclic bisphosphines and macroheterocyclic tetraphosphine ligands for transition metal coordination chemistry [5][6][7]. During the last decade, chiral [8], unsaturated [9], ferrocenylmethyl [10], o-oxyphenyl [11,12], phosphinomethyl [13], and amino acid [14] fragments have been incorporated into bisphosphine ligands to give a number of asymmetric [8], polymetallic [10], water-soluble [10,11,12,14,15] and chelate [16][17][18][19] transition metal complexes. A wide variety of substituents on the phosphorus and nitrogen atoms open the opportunity for ligand design and preparation of tailor-made complexes.…”