“Twin” phosphorous atoms of tetraethyl 2-methyl-piperyd-1-ylmethylenebisphosphonates

Recently, bisaminophosphonates found applications as therapeutic agents for curing bone disorders. When trying to relate the structures of substituted piperid-1-ylmethylenebisphosphonic with their biological properties, non-typical findings that in 31P NMR spectra of 2-methyl-piperid-1-ylmethylenebisphosphonic and 2-ethyl-piperid-1-ylmethylenebisphosphonic acids, two separate singlets from each of the phosphonic groups were observed, while their analogues bearing substituent in position 3 exhibit only one signal. Their presence was explained by freezing of the molecular motions by strong hydrogen bonding between NH and P = O atoms. In this work, synthesis as well as spectroscopic and theore…