“…et al, 1986), herbicides, fungicides, insecticides (Maier and Spoerri, 1991) and plant growth regulators (Emsley and Hall, 1976). Nucleophilic addition of phosphite to imines catalyzed by oxalic acid (Vahdat et al, 2008), Al(OTf 3 ) (Sobhani and Tashrifi, 2009), FeCl 3 (Rezaei et al, 2009), heteropoly acids (Heydari et al, 2007, SbCl 3 /Al 2 O 3 (Ambica et al, 2008), sulfamic acid (Mitragotri et al, 2008), YbCl 3 (Xu et al, 2006), silica sulfuric acid (Yang et al, 2009) (Agarwal et al, 2014;Agarwal et al, 2018;Agrwal et al, 2014) we, herein, report the use of yoghurt as a catalyst, as a function of microorganisms present in it, for the synthesis of α-aminophosphonates.…”