Preparation of esters of phosphoric acid by the reaction of trivalent phosphorus compounds with diethyl azodicarboxylate in the presence of alcohols

O Mitsunobu, M Yamada, T Mukaiyama

Index: Mitsunobu,O. et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1967 , vol. 40, p. 935 - 939

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Abstract

Trivalent phosphorus compounds, phosphine or trialkylphosphites, have been oxidized by means of diethyl azodicarboxylate and either benzyl or allyl alcohol to give the corresponding phosphine oxide or trialkyl phosphates. The reaction was then extended to the phosphorylation of alcohols. When allyl diethyl phosphite was treated with diethyl azodicarboxylate in the presence of an alcohol at room temperature, a corresponding ...