Abstract
The first high-precision, low-temperature, X-ray diffraction study on a phosphaalkyne reveals that the lone pair electrons are located much closer to the P atom than in the related phosphaalkene, and furthermore there is a significant excess electron density on the sp-hybridised C atom, thus readily accounting for the remarkable preferential protonation at C rather than at P in spite of the presence of the lone-pair electrons.
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