Triethyl 2-phosphonopropionate is used as a reactant in intramolecular conjugate addition for the synthesis of floresolide B, enantioselective synthesis of spiroindane di-methyl acetic acid and in stereo selective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions. It plays an important role in Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions and chemoenzymatic one-pot synthesis of gamma-butyrolactones. It is also used in the preparation of 3-[2]furyl-2-methyl-acrylic acid ethyl ester by reacting with furfural.
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Applications
Triethyl 2-phosphonopropionate is used as a reactant in intramolecular conjugate addition for the synthesis of floresolide B, enantioselective synthesis of spiroindane di-methyl acetic acid and in stereo selective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions. It plays an important role in Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions and chemoenzymatic one-pot synthesis of gamma-butyrolactones. It is also used in the preparation of 3-[2]furyl-2-methyl-acrylic acid ethyl ester by reacting with furfural.
Solubility
Miscible with chloroform and methanol.
Notes
Incompatible with strong bases.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Wadsworth-Emmons precursor of methacrylic esters (see Triethyl phosphonoacetate, A14120 and Appendix 1). Lithiation followed by acylation with perfluoroalkanoic anhydrides gives a perfluoroacyl intermediate which, with an organolithium reagent, leads stereoselectively to a trifluoroalkylated ɑß-unsaturated ester: J. Fluorine Chem., 89, 141 (1998):
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