Ligand accelerated catalysis1 is a valuable tool for the
straightforward synthesis of complex molecular frameworks.
2 Over the years, many privileged ligand3 structures have
been developed and applied to useful reactions. In the continual
effort to identify new ligand architectures for valuable organic
transformations, our laboratories have recently reported a
privileged class of P-chiral dihydrobenzooxaphosphole-derived
ligands (4, Scheme 1)