“…Triethyl phosphonothiolformate (5b, R = R 0 = Et) reacts with amines via the cleavage of the S-acyl bond, 9 to P-acyl fission, which is the characteristic behavioral pattern of simple acylphosphonate diesters toward nucleophiles. 10 The phosphonate diesters 1 (R 0 = alkyl) can subsequently be dealkylated with bromotrimethylsilane 11 (TMSBr) in chloroform 12 followed by methanolysis to the corresponding N-(cyclo)alkylcarbamoylphosphonic acids CPOs, 1, R 0 = H). As has been pointed out, some CPOs are active as MMP inhibitors, and are potentially useful in the treatment of various diseases such as cancer metastasis, 2,3,13 arthritis, and several other connective tissue-related disorders that have been shown to be mediated by MMPs.…”