I was thinking about burning some red phosphorus, mixing the phosphorus pentoxide residue with some more red phosphorus, and then gassing the mixture
with chlorine. What are your opinions?ScienceSquirrel - 16-12-2011 at 06:10
I'd looked wikipedia already, but couldn't find much info elsewhere. I wanted to know if someone had already tried any of these methods before
actually trying myself.Lambda-Eyde - 16-12-2011 at 16:21
Burning phosphorus is not a practical way of obtaining phosphorus pentoxide. For POCl<sub>3</sub>, see the attached document.
Burning phosphorus is not a practical way of obtaining phosphorus pentoxide. For POCl<sub>3</sub>, see the attached document.
Thanks, that was the kind of info I was looking for.
Indeed, burning phosphorus is not the best way to get P2O5, I could just buy some in fact, but I don't need much POCl3 anyway, so it won't be a
problem.neptunium - 17-12-2011 at 07:56
where and how did you get red phosphorus to begin with? match boxes? simba - 17-12-2011 at 08:13
My country has no significant meth production (or any other drug in fact), and so red phosphorus is not something so difficult to acquire, you can buy
tiny amounts from chemical suppliers without many questions.
