M. Mikolajczyk et al., A HIGHLY EFFICIENT ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF BETA-AMINOPHOSPHONIC ACIDSVIA ADDITION OF ALPHA-PHOSPHONATE CARBANIONS TO CHIRAL, ENANTIOPURE SULFINIMINES, Chemical communications, (13), 1996, pp. 1503-1504
Addition of alpha-phosphonate carbanions to (S)-sulfinimines 1 affords
N-sulfinyl beta-aminophosphonates 2 in a diastereoisomeric ratio from
5:1 to 10:1; the major diastereoisomers of 2, after separation, are c
onverted to the corresponding beta-aminophosphonates 3 or to (+)-beta-
amino-beta-phenylethane phosphonic acid 4, whose absolute configuratio
n was established as (R) by X-ray crystallography.