“…Typically, a-aminoalkanephosphonates are formed in good yield by treating a carbonyl compound and an amine with a dialkyl phosphite in the presence of an organic base, an alkali metal alkoxide, or a Brønsted/Lewis acid. Recent preparative modifications of the reaction which significantly simplify the original method and increase the yield of the product concern the use of microwave irradiation [44][45][46][47][48][49], silica gel-supported reagents [43,46,49,50], surface-mediated reactions on Al 2 O 3 [51,52], ionic liquids as solvents [53], solvent-free conditions [43,44,47,54,55], and water-tolerant catalysts (magnesium perchlorate [56,57], lithium perchlorate [58,59], metal triflates [60][61][62], indium trichloride [63], samarium diiodide [64], lanthanide trichloride [65], TaCl 5 /SiO 2 [66], bismuth nitrate pentahydrate [67], scandium tris (dodecyl sulfate) [68], tetrabromomethane [54], and montmorillonite KSF [69]). …”