Abstract
Tertiary alkyl, aryl or amino phosphines PR3 (R = Me, nBu, C2H4CN, NEt2) and the bis(phosphine) POP were allowed to react with fluoroiodomethane to produce fluoromethyl phosphonium salts. New crystal structures of forming fluoromethyl phosphonium salts [R3PCH2F]I with R = Me, C2H2CN and NEt2 were obtained and gave additional information of the nearly unknown P-CH2F moiety. The toxicity of the water soluble salt [Me3PCH2F]I was investigated compared to the biocide THPS.
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