Process for preparing aluminum or magnesium phosphide
AssigneeDegesch GmbH
InventorsFranziskus Horn, Ekkehard Fluck
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Abstract
The phosphide of aluminum or magnesium is prepared by a process comprising reacting the finely divided metal or an alloy of both metals with yellow phosphorus at a temperature between 300.degree. and 600.degree. C. in an inert gas atmosphere and in the presence of a catalyst which is chlorine, bromine or iodine or a compound of such element with phosphorus, sulfur, hydrogen, ammonium, zinc or of the metal which is being reacted.
Claims14
A process of preparing the phosphide of aluminum or magnesium comprising reacting the finely divided metal or an alloy of the two metals with yellow phosphorus at a temperature between 300.degree. and 600.degree. C. in an inert gas atmosphere and in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of the element chlorine, bromine or iodine or a compound of such element with phosphorus, sulfur, hydrogen, ammonium zinc or the metal being reacted.
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