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ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 332-339Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c01381
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- Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT
- MIT Indonesia Seed Fund
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In this study, a sustainable method for the production of phosphite was reported using condensed phosphates as catalysts and hydride reagents. The method offers a more sustainable approach to accessing reduced phosphorus compounds and provides a means to close the modern phosphorus cycle.
In pursuit of a more sustainable production of phosphorous acid (H3PO3), a versatile chemical with phosphorus in the +3 oxidation state, we herein report that condensed phosphates can be employed to phosphorylate hydride reagents under solvent-free mechanochemical conditions to furnish phosphite (HPO32-). Using potassium hydride as the hydride source, sodium trimetaphosphate (Na3P3O9), triphosphate (Na5P3O10), pyrophosphate (Na4P2O7), fluorophosphate (Na2PO3F), and polyphosphate ((NaPO3)(n)) engendered phosphite in optimized yields of 44, 58, 44, 84, and 55% based on total P content, respectively. Formation of overreduced products including hypophosphite (H2PO2-) was identified as a competing process, and mechanistic investigations revealed that hydride attack on in-situ-generated phosphorylated phosphite species is a potent pathway for overreduction. The phosphite generated from our method was easily isolated in the form of barium phosphite, a useful intermediate for production of phosphorous acid. This method circumvents the need to pass through white phosphorus (P-4) as a high-energy intermediate and mitigates involvement of environmentally hazardous chemicals. A bioproduced polyphosphate was found to be a viable starting material for the production of phosphite. These results demonstrate the possibility of accessing reduced phosphorus compounds in a more sustainable manner and, more importantly, a means to close the modern phosphorus cycle.
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