trimethylphosphine

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ methyl- +‎ phosphine

Noun

trimethylphosphine (countable and uncountable, plural trimethylphosphines)

1. The organophosphorus compound P(CH₃)₃, a common ligand in coordination chemistry.
   • 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^[1], volume 81, pages 91–95:

     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.