“…• C [7], and, even more remarkably, the reaction of ohaloarylazobenzenes with triethylphosphite in the presence of copper(II) acetate yields the related o-diethylphosphonatoarylazobenzenes in refluxing ethanol in good yield, via the intermediate formation of copper(I)-phosphite complexes [8,9]. Following our work, and that of others, on the coordination template-assisted formation of aryl-phosphonium, -arsonium, and -stibonium salts from the metal ionpromoted reactions of tertiary phosphines, arsines, and stibines with aryl halides bearing an appropriate donor group in close proximity to the halogen [10][11][12][13][14], we were interested in studying the reactivity of such template aryl halides in the Tavs reaction with ethyl diphenylphosphinite, which might provide a new route to some interesting chelating phosphine oxide ligands with additional heterodonor centers.…”