Hydrocarbon and phosphate triester formation during homolytic hydrolysis of organophosphonium ions: an alternate model for organophosphonate biodegradation

LZ Avila, PA Bishop, JW Frost

Index: Avila; Bishop; Frost Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 6 p. 2242 - 2246

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Abstract

Abstract: Treatment of organotrineopentoxyphosphonium trifluoromethanesulfonates with base and organic peroxides results in carbon to phosphorus (CP) bond cleavage. The products of the homolytic hydrolysis are hydrocarbons and trineopentyl phosphate. Reaction of the organophosphonium ions with only base leads to oxygen to phosphorus (0-P) bond cleavage with a complete absence of CP bond cleavage. The likely intermediacy of a ...