“…α-Aminophosphonic acids are structural bioisosteres of amino acids displaying a wide range of biological properties and applications in many areas ranging from agrochemistry to medicine [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Some of their varied applications include antitumor agents [ 5 , 6 , 7 ], potent antibiotics [ 8 , 9 ], as antibacterial agents [ 10 , 11 ], antiviral [ 12 ], and enzyme inhibitors [ 13 , 14 , 15 ] such as renin [ 14 , 16 ], or HIV protease [ 17 , 18 ], among others. Joined with their structural similarity to natural carboxylic acids, the intriguing properties of α-aminophosphonic acids also stem from the fact that the tetrahedral geometry of phosphonic acid functionality resembles in a stable manner the high-energy transition state of peptide bond hydrolysis [ 19 ].…”