Dialkyl hydrogen phosphites preparation

These compounds can be prepared by the action of bromine on a trialkyl phosphite,2 but a more satisfactory method recently worked out by Goldwhite and Saunders3 consists in treating the dialkyl hydrogen phosphite with iV-bromosuccinimide. In this way dimethyl, diethyl w-propyl and isopropyl phosphoro-bromidates have been obtained as pure liquids by distillation at very low temperature. When kept at ordinary temperatures, they gradually decompose with the evolution of the corresponding alkyl bromide. 

Bonds to Oxygen.—Compounds of Lower Oxidation State. Mixed sulphur-phosphorus anhydrides result when sulphonic acids and dialkyl hydrogen phosphites react according to equation (17).448 Further work on the preparation of trimethylsilyl esters of phosphorous acids has been carried out by... 

Optically active phosphorus(iii) acid esters PhR P (OR ) have recently been prepared for the first time by the reaction of a chiral phosphorus chloride and an alcohol or thiol in the presence of an optically active amine, in this case (-)-NN-dimethyl-(l-phenylethyl)amine. (See also Refs. 449 and 450). A kinetic investigation shows that phosphorous acid and chloral react to give 2,2,2-trichloro-l-hydroxyethyl phosphonate at a much lower rate than the corresponding reaction with dimethyl hydrogen phosphite. Phosphorus trichloride and dialkyl phosphites (R0)2P(0)H have been shown to react at low temperature in the presence of pyridine, producing tris(dialkoxyphosphoryl)phosphines [(RO)2P(0)]3P. ... 

Titanium tetrachloride is an efficient reagent for the conversion of trialkyl phosphites and dialkyl hydrogen phosphonates into dialkyl phosphorochloridates. Imidazolides and dialkyl or diaryl phosphoric acids react with acyl fluorides - benzoyl fluoride and oxalyl difluoride being the reagents of choice - to give quantitative yields of the phosphoryl fluorides. The procedure is adaptable to the preparation of fluorides of carbohydrate phosphates in this field, the reaction between the ceu bohydrate and tris-l//-imidazolylphosphine oxide or sulphide with the replacement of one imidazole... 

Synthesis of Phosphoric Acids and their Derivatives.-New approaches to the preparation of dialkyl phosphorofluoridates include the treatment of a vinyl phosphate, e.g.,(l), or an irninophosphace, e.g.,(2), with triethylamine tris(hydrogen fluoride) when the alkyl group consists of a suitably protected nucleoside, the reaction between mono(crimethylsilyl) phosphite in pyridine and sulphuryl chloride fluoride at -30° has been successfully explored. Dibenzyl phosphorofluorldate, hitherto unreported, has been obtained from tecrabenzyl diphosphate and caesium fluoride, and also from the reaction between dibenzyl hydrogen phosphate and 2-fluoro-N-methylpyridinlum tosylate. ... 

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