Phosphorus ozonides adducts

Abstract

Ozone reacts quantitatively on tricoordinated and dicoordinated Phosphorus Compounds. The oxidative addition of ozone on phosphites leads to pentacoordinated or hexacoordinated phosphorus adducts. These adducts are unstable in solution. The decomposition gives the corresponding phosphoric ester with singlet oxygen evolution. In the same conditions, ozone reacts on diphosphene and gives after double bond rupture an adduct: the metaphosphonate. The relative stabilities and oxidative properties are discussed.