Various approaches leading to mono-, diand poly-functionalized phosphonates as well as phosphoryl heterocycles were reported for the systematic study of relationship between chemical structure and biological activities of this most important class of organophosphorus compounds. Introduction Functionalization of phosphonic acid molecules opens enoi-nious possibilities of structural variation of ...

The ability of metalaxyl-M, phosphonic acid in the form of phosphonate, and copper hydroxide to inhibit different stages in the life cycle of Phytophthora ramorum , the causal agent of sudden oak death (SOD), was tested in vitro using 12 isolates from the North American forest lineage. In addition, experiments were conducted in planta to study the ability of phosphonic acid injections and metal...

Novel 2'(β)-methyl-5'-deoxyapiose purine phosphonic acid analogues were designed and synthesized from 2-propanone1,3-diacetate. Condensation successfully proceeded from a glycosyl donor 9 under Vorbrüggen conditions. Condensation of aldehyde 14 with Wittig reagent [(diethoxyphosphinyl)methylidene] triphenylphosphorane gave the desired nucleoside phosphonate analogues 15. Ammonolysis and hydroly...

The hierarchical assembly of DSCs containing a new heteroleptic copper(I) complex with a phosphonic acid anchoring ligand is described; it is shown that conventional I(-)/I3(-) electrolytes may be replaced by [Co(bpy)3](2+/3+) with no loss in performance.

Organic phosphonic acids and organic phosphonic acid esters have been of much interest due to their applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture and industrial chemistry. Boronic acids can act as synthetic intermediates and building blocks and are used in sensing, protein manipulation, therapeutics, biological labelling and separation. The additional introduction of an aminophosphonic ac...

With the aim of improving the photoconversion efficiencies of heteroleptic [Cu(Lanchor)(Lancillary)](+) dyes in n-type dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), the previously favoured anchor ((6,6'-dimethyl-[2,2'-bipyridine]-4,4'-diyl)bis(4,1-phenylene))bis(phosphonic acid) (1) has been replaced by analogues 2 and 3 containing 2-thienyl spacers between the 2,2'-bipyridine metal-binding domain and the...

We have developed a manufacturing process for organic thin-film transistors and organic complementary circuits in which a microcontact-printed phosphonic acid self-assembled monolayer is employed first as an etch resist to pattern aluminum gate electrodes by wet etching and then as the gate dielectric of the same device. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a printing process for elect...

A naphthalene diimide motif bearing phosphonic acid functionalities has been found to be self-assembled with L- and D-arginine through chirality induced molecular recognitions and leads to the formation of micrometre long nanobelts and spherical aggregates at pH 9 in water, respectively.