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Phosphine ligands bearing an imidazolium fragment were easily prepared by one-step radical chain addition of secondary phosphines to allylor vinyl imidazolium salts. These ligands were used to prepare new ionophilic second generation Grubbs-type catalysts. The catalyst immobilizedin 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium ILs shows good catalytic activity in RCM reactions of several substrates and, depending on the media employed,is stable up to eight cycles.