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trimethylphosphine en · NOUN

Etymology

From tri- + methyl- + phosphine.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The organophosphorus compound P(CH₃)₃, a common ligand in coordination chemistry.
   • In this work, phosphorous-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by the thermal decomposition of trimethylphosphine using a high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition method. 2016, Georgina Ruiz-Soria, Toma Susi, Markus Sauer, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Thomas Pichler, Paola Ayala, “On the bonding environment of phosphorus in purified doped single-walled carbon nanotubes”, in Carbon, volume 81, pages 91–95:

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