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So far organophosphorus chemists have been interested in synthesizing low coordinated phosphorus compounds and in studying them in solution at temperatures rarely above 300 °C. As a matter of fact there are few reports on the behaviour of dicoordinated phosphorus molecules at temperatures above 500 °C under low pressure. Another interesting point is that such a study would allow to assess the correla- tion between mass spectral processes and thermal ones.

Addition of diazadienes 5 to dicoordinated phosphorus derivatives such as triazaphospholes 1 or diazaphospholes 3 leads to new tetracoordinated phosphorus spirocompounds 2 or 4. The tricoordinated phosphorus species 7 and 9 exist in a monomer tetramer PIII equilibrium but only the monomeric PII form reacts with diazadienes 5 leading to the spirocompounds 8 and 10. The monomers of 7 and 9 stabilized by complexation react with 5 to afford spirocompounds analogous to 2 and 4. In all these reactions the dicoordinated phosphorus atom is a good electrophile.

Triazaphospholes react with 1,2-diketones to give spirocyclic phosphorus compounds by a 1.1 addition at phosphorus atom; with o-quinones one obtains spirobicyclic hexacoordinated phosphorus compounds. The reaction of 1,2-diketones with λ 3 -phosphazene oligomers appears different, to some extent, and can be used as a test for the existence of a monomer-oligomer equilibrium.

We previously reported that 1 (R=Ph, Me) reacts faster with 3 (R′= Ph, npr) than the α diketones, leading mainly to spirocompounds. The first step of there action of diazadiene with-1 involves an attack of the nitrogen atom lone pair on phosphorus.