Triethyl phosphonoacetate serves as a reactant used in Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions, Tsuji-Trost type reactions, Intramolecular Heck-type cyclization and isomerizations and Intramolecular aryne-ene reactions. In Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, it is utilized as a reagent to prepare chiral 2-methylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid from (S)-propylene oxide.
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Applications
Triethyl phosphonoacetate serves as a reactant used in Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions, Tsuji-Trost type reactions, Intramolecular Heck-type cyclization and isomerizations and Intramolecular aryne-ene reactions. In Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, it is utilized as a reagent to prepare chiral 2-methylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid from (S)-propylene oxide.
Solubility
Slightly miscible with water.
Notes
Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Wadsworth-Emmons (Horner) reaction with aldehydes and ketones gives acrylic esters. See, e.g.: Org. Synth. Coll., 5, 509, 547 (1973), and Appendix 1.
- Base-catalyzed aldol, Cannizzaro and saponification reactions can be minimized, by the use of, e.g.: K2CO3: Synthesis, 300 (1983); Tetrahedron Lett., 26, 53 (1985); F-: Tetrahedron Lett., 21, 2161 (1980); N-ethyldiisopropylamine + LiCl: Tetrahedron Lett., 25, 2183 (1984); Et3N + Li halides: J. Org. Chem., 50, 2624 (1985).
- Reaction with aqueous formaldehyde does not lead to the expected Wadsworth-Emmons product, but to ethyl ɑ-(hydroxymethyl)acrylate, a precursor of the synthetically useful ethyl ɑ-bromomethylacrylate, by condensation with the initially-formed aldol product: Org. Synth. Coll., 8, 265 (1993).
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