Preparation of arylphosphonates by the reaction of aryl halides with tris(trimethylsilyl) phosphite under homogeneous catalysis conditions

The reaction of tris(trimethylsilyl) phosphite with aryl bromides under homogeneous catalysis conditions gives bis(trimethylsilyl)arylphosphonates. The desilylation of these phosphonate products with methanol leads to arylphosphonic acids.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1461–1462, June, 1991.