Triethyl 2-Phosphonopropionate is used in studies involving insecticides and their efficacy on various bacterium. Also act as inhibitors of Epstein-Bar virus transmission and infections.
Triethyl 2-phosphonopropionate is used as a reactant in intramolecular conjugate addition for the synthesis of floresolide B, enantioselective synthesis of spiroindane di-methyl acetic acid and in stereo selective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions. It plays an important role in Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions and chemoenzymatic one-pot synthesis of gamma-butyrolactones. It is also used in the preparation of 3-[2]furyl-2-methyl-acrylic acid ethyl ester by reacting with furfural.
Purify it by fractional distillation with high reflux ratio, preferably using a spinning band column. [Kosolapoff & Powell J Am Chem Soc 72 4198 1950, Kresze et al. Justus Liebigs Ann Chem 756 112 1972, Beilstein 4 IV 3617.]
