Phosphonic acid chlorides

The reaction of phosphonic acid chloride (254) with (S)-proline ethyl ester afforded a mixture of diasteromeric amides (255) in high diastereoselectivity. The diastereomers (255) can easily be purified by chromatography. The chiral, practically optical pure organophosphorus compound (256) was obtained from purified (255) by acid alcoholysis. 

This reaction presents a very efficient way of preparing many kinds of unsaturated phosphoryl systems, e.g. phosphonic acid chlorides (X = Cl) phosphonates (X = OR) or phosphine oxides (X = alkyl, aryl), tolerating almost all types of substitution at the carbon chain. The chemistry of allylic phospho-... 

I would like to tell you another case in which we proposed the reaction mechanism before we carried out the reaction in the laboratory. Fortunately the result came out as predicted. We were interested in making some organophosphorus compounds containing two phosphonous acid chloride groups as shown in the following formula ... 

Preparation of Phosphonic Acid Chlorides. Phosphonic acid dichlorides have been obtained in high yield (determined by NMR) at low temperature from the corresponding acids using oxalyl chloride and Pyridine (eq 1) ... 

Preparation of Phosphonic Acid Chlorides. Disilyl esters of phosphonic acids react with oxalyl chloride-DMF to give the phosphonyl chlorides and silyl chlorides under mild conditions (eq (>) Prior treatment of an acid-sensitive phosphonate monoester with Trimethylsilyldiethylamine was used to minimize exposure to HCl (eq 7). ... 

Phosphonic acid chloride esters from phosphonic acid dichlorides... 

This reaction is catalyzed by hydrogen chloride and yields can be essentially quantitative when using either free phosphonic acid or its diesters. The flame retardant, Eyrol 6, produced by Akzo Chemicals, Inc. and used for rigid urethane foams, is synthesized as follows (24). 

Uses. The largest usage of PCl is to produce phosphonic acid, H PO, which in reaction with iminodiacetic acid and formaldehyde forms a glyphosate intermediate that is decarboxymethylated to glyphosate, an effective nonselective herbicide (see Herbicides). Phosphoms trichloride is also a convenient chlorinating reagent for producing various acyl and alkyl chlorides. 

This reaction can be violent partiy because of the heat Hberated in the solvation of the hydrogen chloride. The hydrolysis can be moderated by adding PCl to a saturated solution of HCI Subsequentiy, the water and hydrogen chloride are boiled until the temperature reaches 180°C. On cooling, phosphonic acid crystallizes from the melt. 

Additional phosphonic acid is derived from by-product streams. In the manufacture of acid chlorides from carboxyUc acids and PCl, phosphonic acid or pyrophosphonic acid is produced, frequentiy with copious quantities of yellow polymeric LOOP. Such mixtures slowly evolve phosphine, particularly on heating, and formerly were a disposal problem. However, purification of this cmde mixture affords commercial phosphonic acid. By-product acid is also derived from the precipitate of calcium salts in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. As a consequence of the treatments of the salt with sulfuric acid, carbonate is Hberated as CO2 and phosphonic acid goes into solution. 

Phosphonic acid is an intermediate in the production of alkylphosphonates that are used as herbicides and as water treatment chemicals for sequestration, scale inhibition, deflocculation, and ion-control agents in oil weUs, cooling tower waters, and boiler feed waters. For example, aqueous phosphonic acid reacts with formaldehyde and ammonium chloride in the presence of hydrochloric acid to yield aminotri(methylenephosphonic acid) [6419-19-8]. 

In general, if the desired carbon—phosphoms skeleton is available in an oxidi2ed form, reduction with lithium aluminum hydride is a powerful technique for the production of primary and secondary phosphines. The method is appHcable to halophosphines, phosphonic and phosphinic acids as well as thein esters, and acid chlorides. Tertiary and secondary phosphine oxides can be reduced to the phosphines. 

Phosphonic (phosphorous) acid, produced by hydrolysis of PCl, is for the most part consumed captively. It has also been offered as a flaked product and a 70 wt % solution by Rhc ne-Poulenc. Phosphonic acid is a by-product from manufacturing carboxyHc acid chlorides and alkaH peroxides. Additional by-product phosphonic acid is recovered in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. 

A general synthesis of phosphonyl thiadiazoles has been recently disclosed starting from the hydrazone 55. The hydrazones were prepared from acyl phosphonates, which in turn were made from acid chlorides 54. Thus treatment of the hydrazone 55 with thionyl chloride in the presence of DMF and sodium chloride provided the thiadiazoles in... 

A) The preparation of [H-chloroethoxyjchloromethyl]phosphonic acid Acetaldehyde (1.1 mol) and hydroxymethylphosphonlc acid (1 mol) in 500 ml of benzene are saturated with hydrogen chloride gas at 10°C to 15°C. The mixture is aged at 25°C for 24 hr, the solvent distilled out in vacuo and the residue flushed three times with benzene to remove all traces of hydrogen chloride. The residue is taken up in benzene (500 ml), treated with tert-butyl hypochlorite (0.8 mol) and azobisisobutyronitrile (0.8 mm) at 40°C until titration shows the absence of hypochlorite and the solution is then evaporated to yield [(1-chloro-ethoxy)chloromethyll phosphonic acid in the form of an oil. 

Because fatty alcohols can easily be converted to the corresponding chlorides or bromides, they are a useful starting material for surface-active phosphonic acid derivatives. A variety of n-alkoxymethylphosphonic acids possessing surface-active properties were synthesized from fatty alcohols having an even number of carbon atoms (Cl2-C18) [98] see Eqs. (34)-(36). 

Aliphatic phosphoric acid and phosphonic acid amides containing lipophilic groups were prepared and used as antimicrobial surfactants. For example, 100 g ethylmethanephosphonate chloride was added to a solution of 130 g dodecyl-amine and 72 g triethylamine in 500 ml anhydrous benzene at 20-30°C to give 192 g ethylmethanephosphonate N-dodecylamide [125]. 

Various cyclic phosphonate esters 36 and 37 have been described previously as products from the HHT reaction of 25 with the appropriate cyclic phosphite. A complementary method has also been developed from the V-protected phosphonyl chloride 84, which was readily prepared from the corresponding phosphonic acid 83. Subsequent reaction of 84 with the appropriate diol produced the cyclic phosphonate esters 85 (63). Higher homologs of 85 have also been prepared from the analogous propane or butane diols. 

B. Reactions.—(/) Nucleophilic Attack at Phosphorus. A reinvestigation of the reaction between phosphorus trichloride and t-butylbenzene in the presence of aluminium chloride has shown that the product after hydrolysis is the substituted phosphinic acid (11), and not the expected phosphonic acid (12). Bis(A-alkylamino)phosphines have been reported to attack chlorodiphenyl phosphine with nitrogen, in the presence of a base, to give bis-(A-alkyl-A-diphenylphosphinoamino)phenylphosphines (13). In (13), the terminal phosphorus atoms are more reactive than the central one towards sulphur and towards alkyl halides. 

PVPA was prepared by the free-radical homopolymerization of vinyl-phosphonyl dichloride using azobisisobutyronitrile as initiator in a chlorinated solvent. The poly(vinylphosphonyl chloride) formed was then hydrolysed to PVPA (Ellis, 1989). No values are available for the apparent pA s of PVPA, but unpolymerized dibasic phosphonic acids have and values similar to those of orthophosphoric acid, i.e. 2 and 8 (Van Wazer, 1958). They are thus stronger acids than acrylic acid, which as a pK of 4-25, and it is to be expected that PVPA will be a stronger and more reactive acid than poly(acrylic acid). 

Small amounts of phosphonium complexone [1560] are sufficient to increase adhesion to the stratal rock. Table 18-4 illustrates an example for plugging solution with Portland cement and phosphonium complexone. Calcium chloride acts as a regulator of the setting time in the suggested composition. More precisely, phosphonium complexone stands for certain chelating phosphorous compounds (e.g., oxyethylidene diphosphonic acid, nitrilo-trimethyl phosphonic acid, sodium tripolyphosphate, or amiphol) [1540]. The mixture is applicable at low temperatures from 20° to 75° C. 

Fundamentally, O-esters of N-hydroxy-2-thiopyridone are photo-lyzed in the presence of an excess of white phosphorus in a methylene chloride/carbon disulfide medium. On solvent removal, hydrolysis, and oxidation with hydrogen peroxide, good yields of phosphonic acids (Figure 2.10) bearing the carbon functionality of the parent acid are isolated. 

Several methods for the preparation of the parent compound in this system, tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphite, have been reported.114 118 The application of this and related reagents in reaction with alkyl halides has been reported and used for the preparation of a variety of phosphonic acid analogues of phospholipids.114119-124 Interestingly, alkyl chlorides appear to be more reactive with the silyl reagents than do alkyl iodides, a reversal of the normally observed trend with alkyl esters of the phosphorus acids. (The particular use of silyl phosphorus reagents for the synthesis of biologically significant compounds has... 

Another approach toward the preparation of analogues of natural amino acids has been reported using the salt of a phosphonous acid with an aldehyde and a substituted urea in acetyl chloride as a solvent/ facilitator.350 This approach provides analogues that bear a single acidic hydrogen at the "acid site," although the attached alkyl group at phosphorus renders the species sterically less like the natural compounds. 

AUenic phosphonic acids, phosphonates and phosphine oxides can be easily prepared from propargylic alcohols and phosphinyl chloride (see Chapter 1). They readily react with both electrophilic reagents and nucleophilic reagents. 

The phenylphosphonic acid 197 reacts with 5 equiv. of AgC104 to deliver the 1,2-oxa-phosphol-3-ene-2-oxide 198 in an 80% total yield of the Z- and E-isomers (Scheme 15.63) [127]. For related reactions, see also [128]. With a phosphonic acid and Hg(OAc)2, the mercurated intermediate, a 4-acetoxymercury l,2-oxaphosphol-3-ene and the corresponding chloride after ligand exchange were isolated [129]. 

Nucleophilic Reactions.—Attack on Saturated Carbon. Selected examples of the Arbusov reaction include phosphorylation of the chloroacetophenones (1) to give phosphonates, which cyclized to (2) in the presence of acid chlorides,1 formation of the azodiphosphonate (3) from 2,2 -dichloro-2,2 -azopropane,2 3 and the reaction of 2-chloro-3,4-dihydro-3-oxo-2//-l,4-benzothiazine (4) with triethyl phosphite to give the 2-phosphonate (5), which is used as an olefin synthon.8 Bis(trimethylsilyl) trimethylsiloxymethylphosphonite (6) has been synthesized by silylation of hydroxy-methylphosphonous acid, and, as expected, undergoes a normal Arbusov reaction with alkyl halides to give the phosphonates (7).4 This series of reactions, followed by... 

The reactions of dimethyl phenylphosphonite with acid chlorides, a-halogeno-ketones, and iV-(bromomethyl)phthalimide have been used to prepare acyl phos-phinates, /3-keto-alkylphosphinates, and phthalimidomethylphosphinates as intermediates in the synthesis of a-diazophosphinic esters.39 a-Amino-phosphonates have also been prepared by the addition of secondary phosphites to nitriles40 and to isocyanides.41... 

Reactions of Phosphonic and Phosphinic Acid Derivatives.—The reactions of phos-phonic and thiophosphonic amides and chlorides with carboxylic acid chlorides and amides have been discussed.101 Dialkyl alkylphosphonates and alkyl dialkylphos-phinates may be used for the iV-alkylation of imidazoles, triazoles, and pyrroles.105... 

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