Phosphonium iodide

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Phosphonium iodide
Space-filling model of the crystal structure of phosphonium iodide Phosphonium-iodide-xtal-3x3x3-3D-sf.png
Space-filling model of the crystal structure of phosphonium iodide
Names
IUPAC name
Phosphanium iodide
Other names
Iodine phosphide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
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EC Number
  • 235-189-0
PubChem CID
UNII
  • InChI=1S/HI.H3P/h1H;1H3
    Key: LSMAIBOZUPTNBR-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • [PH4+].[I-]
Properties
PH
4I
Molar mass 161.910 g/mol
Boiling point 62 °C (144 °F; 335 K) Sublimes [1]
decomposes
Structure
Tetragonal (P4/nmm)
a = 6.34 Å, c = 4.62 Å
185.7 Å3
2
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Phosphonium iodide is a chemical compound with the formula PH
4I. It is an example of a salt containing an unsubstituted phosphonium cation (PH+
4). Phosphonium iodide is commonly used as storage for phosphine [2] and as a reagent for substituting phosphorus into organic molecules. [3]

Contents

Preparation

Phosphonium iodide is prepared by mixing diphosphorus tetraiodide (P2I4) with elemental phosphorus and water at 80 °C and allowing the salt to sublime. [4] [5]

10 P2I4 + 13 P4 + 128 H2O → 40 PH4I + 32 H3PO4

Properties

Structure

Its crystal structure has the tetragonal space group P4/nmm, which is a distorted version of the NH4Cl crystal structure; the unit cell has approximate dimensions 634×634×462 pm. [6] The hydrogen bonding in the system causes the PH+
4 cations to orient such that the hydrogen atoms point toward the I−
 anions. [7]

Chemical

At 62 °C and atmospheric pressure, phosphonium iodide sublimates and dissociates reversibly into phosphine and hydrogen iodide (HI). [1] It oxidizes slowly in air to give iodine and phosphorus oxides; it is hygroscopic [4] and is hydrolyzed into phosphine and HI: [8]

PH4I ⇌ PH3 + HI

Phosphine gas may be devolved from phosphonium iodide by mixing an aqueous solution with potassium hydroxide: [9]

PH4I + KOH → PH3 + KI + H2O

It reacts with elemental iodine and bromine in a nonpolar solution to give phosphorus halides; for example:

2PH4I + 5I2 → P2I4 + 8HI [4]

Phosphonium iodide is a powerful substitution reagent in organic chemistry; for example, it can convert a pyrilium into a phosphinine via substitution. [3] In 1951, Glenn Halstead Brown found that PH4I reacts with acetyl chloride to produce an unknown phosphine derivative, possibly CH3C(=PH)PH2·HI. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Smith, Alexander.; Calvert, Robert Peyton. (July 1914). "The Dissociation Pressures of Ammonium- and Tetramethylammonium Halides and of Phosphonium Iodide and Phosphorus Pentachloride". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 36 (7): 1363–1382. doi:10.1021/ja02184a003 . Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Morrow, B. A.; McFarlane, Richard A. (July 1986). "Trimethylgallium adsorbed on silica and its reaction with phosphine, arsine, and hydrogen chloride: an infrared and Raman study". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 90 (14): 3192–3197. doi:10.1021/j100405a029. ISSN   0022-3654.
  3. 1 2 Mei, Yanbo (2020). Complexes, Heterocycles, and Depolymerizable Polymers. Made from Building Blocks with Low-coordinated Phosphorus (Thesis). ETH Zurich. p. 18. doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000431853. hdl:20.500.11850/431853 . Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Brown, Glenn Halstead (1951). Reactions of phosphine and phosphonium iodide (PhD). Iowa State College. Retrieved 5 Oct 2020.
  5. ↑ Work, J. B.; Mattern, J. A.; Antonucci, R. (5 January 2007). "Phosphonium Iodide". Inorganic Syntheses. Vol. 2. pp. 141–144. doi:10.1002/9780470132333.ch41. ISBN   978-0-470-13161-9.
  6. ↑ Dickinson, Roscoe G. (July 1922). "The Crystal Structure of Phosphonium Iodide". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 44 (7): 1489–1497. Bibcode:1922JAChS..44.1489D. doi:10.1021/ja01428a015.
  7. ↑ Sequeira, A.; Hamilton, Walter C. (September 1967). "Hydrogen Bonding in Phosphonium Iodide: A Neutron-Diffraction Study". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 47 (5): 1818–1822. Bibcode:1967JChPh..47.1818S. doi:10.1063/1.1712171.
  8. ↑ Levchuk, Ievgen (2017). Design and optimization of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals for optoelectronic applications (PDF) (faculty). University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. p. 140. Retrieved 6 Oct 2020.
  9. ↑ Osadchenko, Ivan M; Tomilov, Andrei P (30 June 1969). "Phosphorus Hydrides". Russian Chemical Reviews. 38 (6): 495–504. Bibcode:1969RuCRv..38..495O. doi:10.1070/RC1969v038n06ABEH001756. S2CID   250872306.
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