Visible-light-promoted phosphorylation carbonylation of unactivated alkenes

Phosphorus-containing compounds represent a class of chemicals of great significance. Therefore, it is of high value to develop efficient C-P bond formation methods. However, the activity of phosphoryl radicals results in the facile formation of hydrophosphination products when difunctionalized carbonylation was performed with the addition of alkenes. In this study, we presented a visible light-promoted phosphorylation carbonylation reaction of unactivated alkenes. Both visible light catalyst and oxidant-promoted generating phosphoryl radical from diarylphosphine oxide, which subsequently adding to unactivated alkenes and followed by intramolecular migration in the presence of carbon monoxide to yield the targeted phosphorus-containing carbonyl compounds.