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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Harvey Bright, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Cyanamid Company, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2606 / ; 2606 / ;
Abstract
A process is provided for preparing bis(hydroxymethyl)methylphosphine oxide, comprising (1) thermally rearranging tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine at elevated temperatures in the presence of a catalytic amount of a strong, non-oxidizing acid, having an ionization constant greater than 10.sup.-3, or a source thereof, to obtain the desired bis(hydroxymethyl)methylphosphine oxide, and (2) recovering the latter compound from the reaction mixture.