M. Saady et al., SYNTHESIS OF DIPHOSPHATE AND TRIPHOSPHATE ESTER ANALOGS VIA A MODIFIED MICHAELIS-ARBUZOV REACTION, Tetrahedron letters, 36(29), 1995, pp. 5183-5186
For the first time, benzyl phosphites allowed the preparation of a set
of polyphosphonates from chloromethyl halides via the Michaelis-Arbuz
ov reaction performed under vacuum. Regioselective mono-deprotection o
r complete deprotection of these phosphonates provide useful building
blocks for the synthesis of biological phosphate analogs.