Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Karl-Heinz Steil

Klaus Gehrmann

Alexander Ohorodnik

Stefan Schafer

Wernfried Riechmann

Friedhelm Bylsma

Production of methyldichlorophosphane. The compound is made by reacting methane and phosphorus trichloride in a reaction zone in which a temperature higher than 500.degree. C is maintained. More specifically, hot reaction gas coming from the reaction zone is mechanically freed from solid matter, and the reaction gas freed from solid matter is passed to a quenching zone in which it is quenched with liquefied reaction mixture having 0.3 to 5 weight % of an organic barium compound or a non-ionic surfactant dissolved therein.

Production of methyldichlorophosphane

Methyldichlorophosphane is made by reacting methane with phosphorus trichloride in contact with carbon tetrachloride at temperatures higher than 500.degree. C. To this end, the starting reactant mixture is admixed with 2 to 7 mol % of reaction-initiating carbon tetrachloride, based on phosphorus trichloride; the carbon tetrachloride is reacted to an extent of 50 to 80% by varying the reaction temperature within the range 550.degree. to 650.degree. C for constant residence times of 0.1 to 0.9 second; and resulting reaction mixture containing a residual analytically detectable 20 to 50% proportion of the carbon tetrachloride used is condensed out.

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Karl-Heinz Steil