Meanings
nountrimethylphosphine (countable and uncountable, plural trimethylphosphines)
plural trimethylphosphines
- countableuncountableThe 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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