Phosphonic acids, from carboxylic acid

The term ester applies not only to products derived from carboxylic acids but also to products derived from other types of organic acid such as phosphonic or... 

More recent developments in the field of the Pirkle-type CSPs are the mixed r-donor/ r-acceptor phases such as the Whelk-Of and the Whelk-02 phases.The Whelk-Of is useful for the separation of underiva-tized enantiomers from a number of families, including amides, epoxides, esters, ureas, carbamates, ethers, aziridines, phosphonates, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, alcohols and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.It has been used for the separation of warfarin, aryl-amides,aryl-epoxides and aryl-sulphoxides. The phase has broader applicability than the original Pirkle phases. The broad versatility observed on this phase compares with the polysaccharide-derived CSPs... 

Enol phosphates phosphonates were also obtained by the reaction of perfluoroalkanoyl chlorides with triethyl phosphite. In this case, it was not possible to isolate the putative intermediate perfluoroacylphosphonates. This result is in contrast with the facile formation of bis (trialkylsilyl) trifluoroacetylphosphonates (see previous section), and it indicates that acylphosphonates derived from carboxylic acids with strongly electron-withdrawing groups can be prepared using tris(trialkylsilyl) phosphites. Such silyl phosphites seem to be uniquely suitable for this purpose, by virtue of their high reactivity in the first step and their steric hindrance, which presumably retards the second step. 

Ligands derived from carboxylic acids can be displaced by phosphate and phosphonic acids owing to the stronger binding of the more highly charged species to the lanthanide centre [47]. 

Surfactants are prepared which contain carboxylic acid ester or amide chains and terminal acid groups selected from phosphoric acid, carboxymethyl, sulfuric acid, sulfonic acid, and phosphonic acid. These surfactants can be obtained by reaction of phosphoric acid or phosphorus pentoxide with polyhydroxystearic acid or polycaprolactone at 180-190°C under an inert gas. They are useful as polymerization catalysts and as dispersing agents for fuel, diesel, and paraffin oils [69]. 

Surfactants which contain carboxylic acid ester or amide chains with terminal phosphonic acid groups are prepared from polyhydroxystearic acid or poly-caprolactone. Such reaction products are useful as dispersants, emulsifiers, and, in some cases, bactericides, disinfectants, and antiseptics see Sec. III.C.9 [69]. 

The related planar pyrrole analog 118 has also been prepared (2) from either ethyl or benzyl pyrrole-2-carboxylate 116. Direct alkylation with diethyl phosphonomethyl triflate (70) and base produced the N-phosphonomethylpyrrole 2-carboxylate 117, which was deprotected with trimethylsilyl bromide and saponified to the corresponding phosphonic acid 118. 

It is worthy of note that a-sulfanyl phosphonic acids, which can now be obtained enantioselectively from corresponding a-hydroxyphosphonates, are analogues of the a-sulfanyl carboxylic acids, which, for some of them, are metallo- -lactamases inhibitors [ 112]. To our knowledge, it does not seem that biological activities of a-sulfanyl phosphonic acids have been examined so far. 

Sulfoxides without amino or carboxyl groups have also been resolved. Compound 3 was separated into enantiomers via salt formation between the phosphonic acid group and quinine . Separation of these diastereomeric salts was achieved by fractional crystallization from acetone. Upon passage through an acidic ion exchange column, each salt was converted to the free acid 3. Finally, the tetra-ammonium salt of each enantiomer of 3 was methylated with methyl iodide to give sulfoxide 4. The levorotatory enantiomer was shown to be completely optically pure by the use of chiral shift reagents and by comparison with a sample prepared by stereospecific synthesis (see Section II.B.l). The dextrorotatory enantiomer was found to be 70% optically pure. 

A dispersant that can be used in drilling fluids, spacer fluids, cement slurries, completion fluids, and mixtures of drilling fluids and cement slurries controls the rheologic properties of and enhances the filtrate control in these fluids. The dispersant consists of polymers derived from monomeric residues, including low-molecular-weight olefins that may be sulfonated or phosphonated, unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, ethylenically unsaturated anhydrides, unsaturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids, vinyl alcohols and diols, and sulfonated or phosphonated styrene. The sulfonic acid, phosphonic acid, and carboxylic acid groups on the polymers may be present in neutralized form as alkali metal or ammonium salts [192,193]. 

Despite continnons progress in amide bond formation, the acylation of hydroxylamine nnder carbodiimide promotion is often contaminated by Af,0-diacylation even with sub-stoichiometric amounts of acids. Appendino and colleagues have developed a practical solution to the problem by combining the in situ activation of carboxylic acids 102 with the cyclic phosphonic anhydride PPAA (103), and the generation of hydroxylamine from its corresponding hydrochloride to form 104 (Scheme 54). 

The so-called Weinreb amides (or Af-methoxy-A-methylamides) are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis . Their preparation can be accomplished by coupling carboxylic acids and Af,0-dimethylhydroxylamme. The majority of the methods reported use peptide coupling reagents such as chloroformates , BOP , DCC and others "" or phosphonic derivatives ". These reactive reagents are expensive in some cases, and the removal of their excess (and/or the removal of byproducts) from the reaction mixtures may be difficult. Additional purification of the reaction product is often required. 

Phosphonates adsorb on goethite up to a pH of 12, although like carboxylic acids, maximum adsorption is at low pH. The extent of adsorption rises as the number of phosphonate groups increases from one to five. Nitrilo trismethylene phosphonic acid (NTMP) adsorbs on goethite within minutes at pH 7. Complete desorption is effected at pH 12 after a number of hours. Equimolar amounts of Ca promote uptake of NTMP on goethite (Nowack and Stone, 1999). 

Indeed, the similarity of the molecules from space and the molecules of Earth is striking. For example, several aliphatic carboxylic acids up to Cg were detected, (Knenvolden et al, 1970), as well as alkyl phosphonates (Yuen and Knenvolden, 1973 Cooper et al, 1992 Pizzarello, 1994) and also heterocyclic pyrimidines (Hayatsu et al, 1975 Stocks and Schwarz, 1982). 

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