Abstract
o-Hydroxybenzyl alcohol reacts with trimethyl phosphite under smooth conditions to o-hydroxyphenylmethane phosphonic acid dimethyl ester. This unusual reaction is of widest applicability. Derivatives of o-hydroxybenzyl alcohol independent of type, number or position of substituents in the ring, react with alkyl esters of phosphorous, phosphonous or phosphinous acids in an analogous process, forming the corresponding o-hydroxyphenylmethane phosphonic or phosphinic esters or phosphine oxides.

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