A novel class of chiral o-hydroxyaryl phosphine oxides such as 1 and 2 has been synthesized by a migration–rearrangement reaction with retention of the configuration at the phosphorus atom. On the basis of experimental results, the mechanism is proposed to be addition–pseudorotation–elimination.
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