“…2), and some of their corresponding complexes have been exploited in catalysis [35,88]. The synthesis of these bidentate O−anionic 1 -P−phosph(in)ito ligands can be accomplished by reaction of metal complexes with phosphane oxides [36,[89][90][91][92][93] or mixed anhydrides of phosphinous and acrylic acids [94], by solvolysis of acetylenic phosphane [95], phosphazane [96], chlorophosphane [97] or phosphinite [98,99] complexes, or by treatment of suitable precursors with chlorophosphanes in protic solvents [100][101][102][103]. Deprotonation with an appropriate base of the cis-configured monoanion complex 32, featuring the quasichelating phosphinous acid O−anionic 1 -P−phosphinito unit, R 2 P−O−H•••O−PR 2 , bridged by an hydrogen, is accompanied by a rearrangement to afford the trans-configured complex 33 with two O−negatively charged phosphinito units coordinated to one platinum center (Scheme 16).…”