“…C-Methyl 4-amino-P,P-diethyl-4-phosphonobutyrate, obtained by the oxime method as 0108-2701/87/020287-03501.50 described by Kowalik, Kupczyk-Subotkowska & Mastalerz (1981) was cyclized by heating at 423 K for 30 min and hydrolysed with 40% solution of hydrobromide in acetic acid at room temperature for 48 h (Oleksyszyn, Gruszecka, Kafarski & Mastalerz, 1982 Pbc21 confirmed by refinement; Syntex P2~ computercontrolled four-circle diffractometer, scintillation counter, graphite monochromator; cell parameters by least squares from setting angles of 15 reflexions with 24 < 20(Mo) < 32 ° measured on diffractometer, 774 independent reflexions; 20max = 55"0°; variable 0--20 scans, scan rate 2.0-29.3 ° min -~ depending on intensity; two standards (235, 433) every 50 reflexions, variation in intensities +3.0%; data corrected for Lorentz-polarization, not for absorption; 748 with 1> 3.0a(/) used for structure determination; index range h0 to 9, k0 to 8, l0 to 16; calculations 5-OXO-2-PYRROLIDINYLPHOSPHONIC ACID performed with Syntex (1976) system; neutral-atom scattering factors from International Tables for X-ray Crystallography (1974); direct methods, Syntex (1976) version of MULTAN (Germain, Main & Woolfson, 1971) (Johnson, 1976) drawing of the title compound with the atom-numbering scheme.…”