Chemistry:Sodium monothiophosphate

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Sodium monothiophosphate
Molecular model of sodium monothiophosphate
Names
IUPAC name
Sodium monothiophosphate
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
EC Number
  • 233-26-1
UNII
Properties
Na
3
PO
3
S
Molar mass 180.00 g·mol−1
Appearance White solid
Density 1.58 g/cm3 (dodecahydrate)
2.40 g/cm3 (anhydrous)
Melting point 120 to 125 °C (248 to 257 °F; 393 to 398 K) (decomposition)
soluble
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references

Sodium monothiophosphate, or sodium phosphorothioate, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na
3
PO
3
S
. It is a sodium salt of monothiophosphoric acid (H
3
PO
3
S
). Sodium monothiophosphate forms hydrates Na
3
PO
3
· xH
2
O
. The anhydrous form and all hydrates are white solids. The anhydrous salt (x = 0) (Na
3
PO
3
S
) decomposes without melting at 120-125 °C. More common is the dodecahydrate (Na
3
PO
3
· 12H2O
). A nonahydrate is also known (Na
3
PO
3
· 9H2O
).

Related salts are the sodium dithiophosphate undecahydrate Na
3
PO
2
S
2
 · 11H2O
, sodium trithiophosphate undecahydrate Na
3
POS
3
 · 11H2O
, and sodium tetrathiophosphate octahydrate Na
3
PS
4
 · 8H2O
.[1]

Preparation

Sodium monothiophosphate is prepared by the base hydrolysis of thiophosphoryl chloride using aqueous sodium hydroxide:[2][3]

PSCl
3
+ 6 NaOH + 9 H
2
O → Na
3
PO
3
· 12H2O + 3 NaCl

This reaction affords the dodecahydrate, which is easily dehydrated.

Partial dehydration over 6.5 M H
2
SO
4
gives the nonahydrate. Under flowing N
2
, the anhydrous salt is formed.[4]

Sodium monothiophosphate decomposes at neutral pH. Silicone grease catalyses the hydrolysis of the monothiophosphate ion PO
3
S3−
, so it is recommended that it is not used in the glass joints.[5]

In the anhydrous salt, the P-S bond is 211 pm and the three equivalent P-O bonds are short at 151 pm. These disparate values suggest that the P-S bond is single.[6]

References

  1. Elias, D. P. (1957). "Crystallographic Data on Some Sodium Phosphorothioates". Acta Crystallographica 10 (9): 600. doi:10.1107/S0365110X57002108. Bibcode1957AcCry..10..600E. 
  2. Stanley K. Yasuda; Jack L. Lambert (1957). "Sodium Monothiophosphate". Inorganic Syntheses. 5. pp. 102–104. doi:10.1002/9780470132364.ch28. ISBN 978-0-470-13236-4. 
  3. L. C. Washburn; R. L. Hayes (1977). "Importance of Excess Base in the Synthesis of Sodium Monothiophosphate: (Sodium Phosphorothioate)". Inorganic Syntheses. 17. pp. 193–4. doi:10.1002/9780470132487.ch53. ISBN 978-0-470-13248-7. 
  4. Palazzi, Marcel (1973). "Trisodium monothiophosphate. Radiocrystallographic study". Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France 12: 3246–8. 
  5. Lucian C. Pop and M. Saito (2015). "Serendipitous Reactions Involving a Silicone Grease". Coordination Chemistry Reviews 314: 64–70. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2015.07.005. 
  6. Pompetzki, M.; Jansen, M. (2002). "Natriummonothiophosphat(V): Kristallstruktur und Natriumionenleitfähigkeit". Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie 628 (3): 641–646. doi:10.1002/1521-3749(200203)628:3<641::AID-ZAAC641>3.0.CO;2-8.