-Aminophosphonates are an important class of biologically active compounds, attracting considerable attention in medicinal chemistry, by inhibiting enzymes involved in amino acid metabolism. Herein, the Kabachnik-Fields domino reaction was investigated by mechanochemistry for the first-time preparation of -aminophosphonate derivatives in high yields and with full selectivity, outperforming comparable solution procedures. The reaction is a Lewis acid-catalysed process occurring however without the addition of any external catalyst, but occurring on the surface of the zirconium oxide used as the milling media. The mechanism of the mechanochemical reaction was also investigated by in situ Raman spectroscopy, the kinetic behavior was disclosed. The solid-state structures of two representative compounds have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffractions.