The Phosphorus Analogues of Aminocarboxylic Acids

The review is devoted to aminophosphonic, aminophosphinic, and aminophosphonous acids and their derivatives. The interest in these compounds is in many respects because some of them have been detected in Nature and have an appreciable bioactivity. The review deals with the methods of synthesis of aminophosphonic, aminophosphinic, and aminophosphonous acids and with the properties of these compounds, attention being specially concentrated on the phosphorus analogues of natural α-aminocarboxylic acids.
The bibliography includes 258 references.