| Abstract: | 31P NMR has become a widely applied spectroscopic probe of the structure of phosphorus-containing compounds. Meanwhile, the application of 31P NMR has been rapidly expanded to biochemistry and medicinal chemistry of phosphorus-containing compounds because the growing importance of the phosphorus compounds is now widely realized. We report here the results of 31P NMR study on some phosphorus-containing compounds, namely, O-alkyl O-4-nitrophenyl methyl phosphonates with different alkyl chain-length (MePO-n), 4-nitrophenyl alkylphenylphosphinates with different alkyl chain-length (PhP-n), diethyl phosphono- acetonitrile anion and diethyl phosphite anion . Our results indicate that 31P NMR can not only be applied to not only the study of the hydrolytic reactions of MePO-8 and PhP-8 but also be applied to the study of the presence of the anions of diethylphosphonoacetonitrile and diethyl phosphite in nucleophilic reactions. |
