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Phosphine imide
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Iminophosphorane.
Iminophosphoranes (also known as phosphine imides, phosphinimide, phosphinimines, λ5-phosphazenes, acyclic phosphazenes) are a class of organophosphorus compounds and an acyclic subclass of phosphazenes with the general formula R3P=NR′. First reported by Staudinger and Meyer in 1919, these isoelectronic analogues of phosphine oxides and phosphonium ylides (also known as Wittig reagents) are most commonly synthesized via the Staudinger reaction or Kirsanov reaction, though alternative synthetic routes have also been developed.