Mr. Banks et al., FROM GAS-PHASE TO CONDENSED-PHASE - TOWARDS METAPHOSPHATE GENERATION IN SOLUTION, Phosphorus, sulfur and silicon and the related elements, 76(1-4), 1993, pp. 297-300
Based on attempts to generate methyl metaphophate in solution by therm
al fragmentation of a cyclic pyrocarbonate phosphate, it has emerged t
hat reaction of methyl dichlorophosphate with anhydrous potassium hydr
ogen carbonate serves as an alternative approach as proven by trapping
with styrene oxide to form a 1,3,2-dioxaphospholane.