Phosphonic acid dialkyl esters are transformed in high yield into the corresponding bistrimethylsilyl esters on treatment with iodotrimethylsilane; subsequent hydrolysis of these products affords the parent phosphonic acids under mild conditions without influence on a variety of other functional groups.
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