Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 11, Issue 18, 2007

Organophosphorus chemistry continues to be a highly important sector of organic chemistry, as shown by the numerous publications in this field. The 17th International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry held in Xiamen (China) recently (http://icpc2007.xmu.edu.cn/) highlighted some of the most significant and exciting trends. The importance of this field is also acknowledged by the management of Current Organic Chemistr Read More

Despite their importance in biology and industry, organophosphorus compounds appear quite rarely as an object of supramolecular chemistry studies. Development of synthetic methods in organophosphorus chemistry enabled to design and synthesize compounds of complex structures and thus to develop organophosphorus supramolecular chemistry. In this review, a state-of art showing current progress in design and a Read More

Literature publications (up to the end of 2006) relating to the synthesis, biological significance and conformational behaviour of carbocycle- and heterocycle-condensed six-membered tetracoordinate P(V) 1,3,2-diheterophosphorinanes are reviewed. The replacement of carbon atoms of cyclohexane by P and O and/or N to form 1,3,2-dioxa-, 1,3,2- oxaza- or 1,3,2-diazaphosphorinanes introduces lone pair electrons instead Read More

Oximes are acetylcholinesterase reactivators of use in poisoning with organophosphorus inhibitors of cholinesterase (OPIChE: (organophosphates and organophosphonates). Pralidoxime (1) and obidoxime (2) are clinically used as an adjunct to atropine in such exposure. Clinical experience with oximes is however disappointing. The paper reviews the available data concerning the ability of established and new oximes to reactivat Read More

Literature publications (up to September 2006) concerning the synthesis of ω-phosphinyl-α-amino acids and their development towards use as therapeutic agents are reviewed. General and asymmetric methodologies for the preparation of straight-chain examples are described, including AP3-7 modulators of glutamate-responsive excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptors (i.e. ionotropic NMDA-, and metabotropic GrpIII mGlu- Read More

This review will focus on the synthesis of α- and β-azidoalkylphosphonic and -phosphinic acids, -phosphine oxides and their derivatives as well as their reactions utilizing the azido group and/or phosphyl group. In the first part of this review synthetic routes to such azides will be reviewed. Generally, these compounds are achieved via nucleophilic substitution of hydroxy derivatives of phosphonates, -phosphinates, and -phos Read More