The saturated hydrides of tervalent phosphorus having the general formula
PnHn+2
.
Individual members having an unbranched phosphorus chain are named phosphane, diphosphane,
triphosphane, etc. The name of a saturated
hydride of phosphorus wherein one or more phosphorus atoms have a
bonding number of 5 is formed by prefixing locants and
symbols to the name of the corresponding phosphane. Hydrocarbyl derivatives of
PH3
belong to the class
phosphines.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1357
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
