Hydrogen Bromide → Phosphonic acid, (3-bromo-2-hydroxypropyl)-, diethyl ester

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47% aqueous hydrobromic acid (82.8 g) was added dropwise to diethyl 2,3-epoxypropylphosphonate (77.6 g) under ice-cooling and with stirring over a five minute interval. After the stirring was continued for an hour under ice-cooling and for 3 hours at ambient temperature, the reaction mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (500 ml). The ethyl acetate layer was separated, washed three times with saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (200 ml and 100 ml×2) and twice with saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution (100 ml×2), dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated to dryness to give oily diethyl 3-bromo-2-hydroxypropylphosphonate (94.7 g).

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