Phosphine oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula H3PO. Although stable as a dilute gas, liquid or solid samples are unstable. Unlike many other compounds of the type POxHy, H3PO is rarely discussed and is not even mentioned in major sources on main group chemistry.[1]
Phosphine oxide is reported as an intermediate in the room-temperature polymerization of phosphine and nitric oxide to solid PxHy.[6]
Further reading
Chesnut, D. B.; Savin, A. (1999). "The Electron Localization Function (ELF) Description of the PO Bond in Phosphine Oxide". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121 (10): 2335–2336. Bibcode:1999JAChS.121.2335C. doi:10.1021/ja984314m.
Alkorta, Ibon; Sánchez-Sanz, Goar; Elguero, José; Del Bene, Janet E. (2014). "Pnicogen Bonds between X═PH3 (X = O, S, NH, CH2) and Phosphorus and Nitrogen Bases". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118 (8): 1527–1537. Bibcode:2014JPCA..118.1527A. doi:10.1021/jp411623h. PMID24547683.
^Hamilton, Peter A.; Murrells, Timothy P. (1985). "Kinetics and mechanism of the reactions of PH3 with O(3P) and N(4S) atoms". J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2 (81): 1531–1541. doi:10.1039/F29858101531.
^Withnall, Robert; Andrews, Lester (1987). "FTIR spectra of the photolysis products of the phosphine-ozone complex in solid argon". J. Phys. Chem. 91 (4): 784–797. doi:10.1021/j100288a008.
^Kayser, David A.; Ault, Bruce S. (2003). "Matrix Isolation and Theoretical Study of the Photochemical Reaction of PH3 with OVCl3 and CrCl2O2". J. Phys. Chem. A. 107 (33): 6500–6505. Bibcode:2003JPCA..107.6500K. doi:10.1021/jp022692e.
^Yakhvarov, D.; Caporali, M.; Gonsalvi, L.; Latypov, S.; Mirabello, V.; Rizvanov, I.; Sinyashin, O.; Stoppioni, P.; Peruzzini, M. (2011). "Experimental Evidence of Phosphine Oxide Generation in Solution and Trapping by Ruthenium Complexes". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50 (23): 5370–5373. doi:10.1002/anie.201100822. PMID21538749.
^Zhao, Yi-Lei; Flora, Jason W.; David Thweatt, William; Garrison, Stephen L.; Gonzalez, Carlos; Houk, K. N.; Marquez, Manuel (2009). "Phosphine Polymerization by Nitric Oxide: Experimental Characterization and Theoretical Predictions of Mechanism". Inorg. Chem. 48 (3): 1223–1231. doi:10.1021/ic801917a. PMID19102679.