A rearrangement-based approach to secondary difluorophosphonates

[3,3]-Claisen rearrangements allowed the conversion of a readily available allylic difluorophosphonate to nucleic acid and inositol phosphate-related products via epoxide cyclisation or ring closing metathesis respectively

Towards stable analogues of inositol phosphates : stereoselective syntheses of (alpha,alpha-difluoromethyl)phosphonic acid (DFMPA)-containing cyclohexanes

Diels–Alder and conjugate addition reactions were used to prepare precursors to a range of fully functionalised and deoxy inositol phosphate analogues