Visible-light-promoted phosphorylation carbonylation of unactivated alkenes

• A new visible light-promoted phosphorylation carbonylation . • A new procedure for synthesis of phosphorus-containing carbonyl compounds . • The first study on carbonylative double functionalization of alkenes with phosphine radical. Phosphorus-containing compounds represent a class of chemicals of great significance. Therefore, it is of high value to develop efficient C-P bond formation methods. However, the activity of phosphoryl radicals results in the facile formation of hydrophosphination products when difunctionalized carbonylation was performed with the addition of alkenes . In this study, we presented a visible light-promoted phosphorylation carbonylation reaction of unactivated alkenes . Both visible light catalyst and oxidant-promoted generating phosphoryl radical from diarylphosphine oxide, which subsequently adding to unactivated alkenes and followed by intramolecular migration in the presence of carbon monoxide to yield the targeted phosphorus-containing carbonyl compounds .