Phosphorus Fluorides

Advances in the chemistry of compounds containing P–F bonds, published during the past three or four years, are surveyed. Methods of synthesising several novel and some previously known products containing phosphorus and fluorine are reported, together with their chemical properties and the results of structural investigations using optical spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and electron diffraction. The Review covers recent investigations on the stereochemistry of fluorides of five-coordinated phosphorus, and also problems of the complexing power of P[III] and P[V] fluorides, which have been widely studied during recent years. Progress in the chemistry of the phosphorus fluorides will help to solve such important and continuing problems as the degree of hybridisation and the nature of the phosphorus-substituent bond in five-coordinated phosphorus compounds, the mechanism of chemical reactions involving phosphorus compounds of various coordination numbers, the possibility and the character of interference between substituents, etc. A list of 188 references is given.