3.17 Synthetically Derived Auxiliaries: Phosphorus Derivatives

This chapter aims to give an overall view of chiral-pool based asymmetric synthesis of organophosphorus compounds more particularly bearing the chirality on the phosphorus atom (P-stereogenic). The enantiomerically pure organophosphorus compounds can be obtained either by resolution of the racemate or by stereoselective synthesis using particularly ephedrine or sparteine as the main chiral auxiliaries and borane as a P(III)-protecting group.