Word.ws English Dictionary

sodium diphenylphosphide

sodium diphenylphosphide noun: a chemical compound with the formula Ph₂PNa; Ph = Phenyl.

Noun

sodium diphenylphosphide (uncountable)

  1. A chemical compound with the formula Ph₂PNa; Ph = Phenyl.
    • Sodium diphenylphosphide (Ph₂PNa) is readily prepared by adding Na to a solution of the diphosphine in dry Et₂O or THF (exothermic!), whereby the colour becomes yellow and the orange Na salt separates.2003, W. L. F. Armarego, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 536

Questions about sodium diphenylphosphide

What does sodium diphenylphosphide mean?
Sodium diphenylphosphide means a chemical compound with the formula Ph₂PNa; Ph = Phenyl.
What part of speech is sodium diphenylphosphide?
Sodium diphenylphosphide is a noun.

Words near sodium diphenylphosphide in the dictionary

  1. sodium citrates
  2. sodium cocoamphoacetate
  3. sodium cocoate
  4. sodium cyanide
  5. sodium dehydroacetate
  6. sodium diphenylphosphide
  7. sodium dithionate
  8. sodium dodecyl sulfate
  9. sodium erythorbate
  10. sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
  11. sodium ferulate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sodium diphenylphosphide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sodium diphenylphosphide.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sodium_diphenylphosphide. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.