Synthesis of Fluorine-Containing Analogues of 1-Lysoglycerophospholipids via Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons Reaction

This article describes an efficient method of synthesizing fluorine-containing analogues of 1-lysoglycerophospholipids (1-LPLs) by introducing a palmitoyl moiety starting from bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)phosphonoacetate (Still-Gennari reagent). Our method effectively employs Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reagents as masked 1-LPL derivatives to prepare a series of analogues of 1-lysophosphatidic acid (1-LPA), 1-lysophosphatidylethanolamine (1-LPE), and 1-lysophosphatidylcholine (1-LPC).