Originally posted by Sauron
Yes the oxychloride can be made from phosphates at high temperatures requiring a tube furnace but I would hardly call having to deal with POCl3 at 750
C convenient, and few of us have a tube furnace. (though I admit to one.)
The chlorination of phosphides is purely speculative. And phosphides also only release P vapor (and that is white P vapor) at high temperatures. These
might form practical industrial processes but for the home chemist they strike me as rather remote possibilities and hazardous. More hazardous than
the DEA. |