“…Such similarity of thiaphosphinanium salts and cyanosubstituted cycles 14 and 15 means that the phosphorus atom in the latter compounds is characterized by a significant fractional positive charge, mainly due to the electronwithdrawing effect of both the CN group and the phosphoryl oxygen. The same conclusion can be made on the base of comparison of the P-S bond lengths in the nonfunctionalized 2-oxo-2-phenyl-1,2-thiaphosphinane [29] and 15d(A) (Figure 5), where the P-S bond length is shortened by 0.02Å, while the P(1)-C(1) bond is elongated by 0.04Å due to the presence of the CN group (Table 7). Thus, one can conclude that, for the P-S bond, the presence of electronwithdrawing substituents leads not to an elongation 15a(B), 15c(A), 15i(B), and G is the same as for all other six-membered cycles in Figures 2-6.…”