AUTHOR=Gawande Manoj, Disale Shamrao, Kale Sandip, Abraham George, Kahandal Sandeep, Sawarkar Ashish TITLE=A Sustainable and Efficient Synthesis of Benzyl Phosphonates Using PEG/KI Catalytic System JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=4 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2016.00035 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2016.00035 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=An efficient and expedient protocol for the synthesis of benzyl phosphonates using KI/K2CO3 as a catalytic system and PEG-400 as benign solvent has been developed. The reaction proceeds smoothly at room temperature achieving excellent selectivity and yield of the corresponding products. The combination of PEG-400, KI, and K2CO3 in this reaction avoids the need of volatile/toxic organic solvents and reactive alkali metals or metal nanoparticles/hydrides. We believe that this benign combination (PEG-400 and KI) could be used for other related organic transformations.