Ylidyl chlorophosphanes 1 and dichlorophosphanes 2 react with trimethylsilyl phosphanes to yield the ylidyl diphosphanes 3, 4,5, 7 and the 2-ylidyl triphosphanes 8. From the reaction of compounds 1 with lithium diphosphanyl amide and diphosphanyl methanide result the ylidyl diphosphonium ylides 11 and ylidyl diphosphinimines 13. The former rearrange to give the ylidyl triphosphanyl methanes 12. The chloromethyl diphosphinimine 13c enters a cyclization to give the 1,2,3,5-azatriphosphole derivative 14, the structure of which has been solved by X-ray analysis. From the reaction of ylidyl bis(chlorophosphanes) 17 and 20 with the same reagents the 1,2,4,5-tetraphosphinine derivative 18 and the 1,2,3,5,6-azatetraphosphinine derivatives 19 and 21 are obtained.