Phosphoryl chloride

Phosphoryl chloride
Phosphoryl chloride
Identifiers
CAS number 10025-87-3 YesY
PubChem 24813
ChemSpider 23198 YesY
EC number 233-046-7
UN number 1810
ChEBI CHEBI:30336 YesY
RTECS number TH4897000
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Properties
Molecular formula POCl3
Molar mass 153.33 g/mol
Appearance Clear, colourless liquid, fumes in moist air
Density 1.645 g/cm3, liquid
Melting point

1.25 °C (274.4 K)

Boiling point

105.8 °C (379.0 K)

Solubility in water Reacts
Structure
Molecular shape tetrahedral
Dipole moment 2.54 D
Hazards
MSDS External MSDS
EU Index 015-009-00-5
EU classification Very toxic (T+)
Harmful (Xn)
Corrosive (C)
R-phrases R14, R22, R26, R35, R48/23
S-phrases (S1/2), S7/8, S26, S36/37/39, S45
NFPA 704
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Related compounds
Related compounds Thiophosphoryl chloride
Phosphorus oxybromide
Phosphorus trichloride
Phosphorus pentachloride
Supplementary data page
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Phase behaviour
Solid, liquid, gas
Spectral data UV, IR, NMR, MS
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Phosphoryl chloride (commonly called phosphorus oxychloride) is a colourless liquid with the formula POCl3. It hydrolyses in moist air to phosphoric acid to release choking fumes of hydrogen chloride. It is manufactured industrially on a large scale from phosphorus trichloride and oxygen or phosphorus pentoxide. It is mainly used to make phosphate esters such as tricresyl phosphate.

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Structure

Like phosphate, phosphoryl chloride is tetrahedral in shape. It features three P-Cl bonds and one very strong P=O double bond, with an estimated bond dissociation energy of 533.5 kJ/mol. On the basis of bond length and electronegativity, the Schomaker-Stevenson rule suggests that the double bond form is very dominant (in contrast with POF3). The P=O bond does not resemble the π bond in a carbonyl group as in a ketone. The appropriate description of the P-O interaction is a matter of long discussion. Older textbooks favor a description that invokes participation of the d-orbitals on phosphorus. Some of these d-orbitals project toward the O atom, overlapping with p-orbitals on oxygen. More modern texts seem to favor a description where the P-O π bonding involves the σ* components of the P-Cl bonds. These descriptions do not consider a role for d-orbitals.

POCl3 structure.png

where pm = picometers

Chemical properties

POCl3 reacts with water and alcohols to give hydrogen chloride and phosphoric acid or phosphate esters, respectively:

O=PCl3 + 3 H2O → O=P(OH)3 + 3 HCl

If the water is replaced by an alcohol, the trialkyl phosphate esters result. Such reactions are often performed in the presence of an HCl acceptor such as pyridine or an amine. If POCl3 is heated with an excess of a phenol (ArOH) in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst such as magnesium chloride, a triaryl phosphate ester such as triphenyl phosphate is formed. For example:

3 C6H5OH + O=PCl3 → O=P(OC6H5)3 + 3 HCl

POCl3 can also act as a Lewis base, forming adducts with a variety of Lewis acids such as titanium tetrachloride:

Cl3P+-O + TiCl4 → Cl3P+-O-TiCl4

The aluminium chloride adduct (POCl3·AlCl3) is quite stable, and so POCl3 can be used to remove AlCl3 completely from reaction mixtures at the end of a Friedel-Crafts reaction. POCl3 reacts with hydrogen bromide in the presence of AlCl3 to produce POBr3.

Preparation

Phosphoryl chloride can be prepared by the reaction of phosphorus trichloride with oxygen at 20-50 °C (air is ineffective):

2 PCl3 + O2 → 2 O=PCl3

An alternative synthesis involves the reaction of phosphorus pentachloride (PCl5) and phosphorus pentoxide (P4O10). Since these compounds are both solids, a convenient way of performing the reaction is to chlorinate a mixture of PCl3 and P4O10, which generates the PCl5 in situ. As the PCl3 is consumed, the POCl3 becomes the reaction solvent.

6 PCl3 + 6 Cl2 → 6 PCl5
6 PCl5 + P4O10 → 10 POCl3

Phosphorus pentachloride also forms POCl3 by reaction with water, but this reaction is less easily controlled than the above reaction.

Uses

The most important use for phosphoryl chloride is in the manufacture of triarylphosphate esters (as described above) such as triphenyl phosphate and tricresyl phosphate. These esters have been used for many years as flame retardants and plasticisers for PVC. Meanwhile trialkyl esters such as tributyl phosphate (made similarly from butan-1-ol) are used as liquid-liquid extraction solvents in nuclear reprocessing and elsewhere.

In the semiconductor industry, POCl3 is used as a safe liquid phosphorus source in diffusion processes. The phosphorus acts as a dopant used to create N-type layers on a silicon wafer.

In the laboratory, POCl3 is widely used as a dehydrating agent, for example the conversion of amides to nitriles. Similarly, certain aryl amides can be cyclised to dihydroisoquinoline derivatives using the Bischler-Napieralski reaction.

Two uses for phosphorus oxychloride in organic chemistry

Such reactions are believed to go via an imidoyl chloride; in certain cases where it is stable, the imidoyl chloride is the final product. For example pyridones and pyrimidones can be converted to chloro- derivatives of pyridines and pyrimidines, which are important intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ R. C. Elderfield, Heterocyclic Compounds, Vol. 6, p 265

Further reading

  1. N. N. Greenwood, A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 1997.
  2. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 71st edition, CRC Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990.
  3. J. March, Advanced Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., p. 723, Wiley, New York, 1992.
  4. The Merck Index, 7th edition, Merck & Co, Rahway, New Jersey, USA, 1960.
  5. A. D. F. Toy, The Chemistry of Phosphorus, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1973.
  6. L. G. Wade, Jr., Organic Chemistry, 6th ed., p. 477, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA, 2005.
  7. B. J. Walker, Organophosphorus chemistry, p101-116, Penguin, Harmondsworth, UK, 1972.

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