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An easy synthesis of aryl phosphonates by oxidation from aryldichlorop
hosphines with iodine in good yields is described. Aryldichlorophosphi
nes are obtained by reaction of phosphorous trichloride with some arom
atics in presence of various Lewis acids. BiCl3 and Bi(OTf)(3) are use
d for the first time and bismuth trichloride is, for the first time in
the case of anisole or thioanisole phosphonylation, used as a true re
generable Lewis acid catalyst in a reaction of direct phosphonylation
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