... b WJ Thompson, CA Buhr; J. Org. Chem., 48 (1983), pp. 2769–2772 and reference cited therein. 3); E. Nakamura; The α-hydroxyphosphonate 3a and its utility for the synthesis of 2-alkoxyacrylates was first reported by: Tetrahedron Lett., 22 (1981), pp. 663–666 For large scale preparation of 3. we found the modified procedure describe below to be more convenient. 4 For ...