Performance Products & Specialties
Phosphorus-based chemistry
Italmatch Chemicals manufactures a wide range of reactive chemical intermediates, mainly stemming from the wide experience and thorough knowledge of phosphorus-based chemistry, both as a reactive chemicals or an intermediate products used in our phosphorus technology:
- Phosphorus Chlorides
- Phosphorus Pentasulphide
- Acid Chlorides
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PCl3 – Phosphorus Trichloride – is an important industrial chemical, used to manufacture organophosphorus compounds for a wide variety of applications, including herbicides, insecticides, plasticizers, oil additives, and flame retardants. Also used directly as a reagent in organic synthesis to convert carboxylic acids into acyl chlorides.
POCl3 – Phosphorus Oxychloride is an important industrial chemical, used to manufacture organophosphorus compounds for a wide variety of applications, including herbicides, insecticides, plasticizers, oil additives and flame retardants. Also used directly as a reagent in organic synthesis. It is additionally used in chlorination reactions in the pharmaceutical industry.
PCl5 – Phosphorus Pentachloride, used as a chlorinating reagent in the manufacturing of antibiotics and also for the production of lithium ion battery electrolytes.
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By far its main use is in the production of lubricant additives: phosphorus pentasulphide is the key raw material in the production of the very important class of lubricant additives, zinc-dithio-phosphates (ZDDP).
Mining flotation agents: sodium, potassium, calcium or ammonium salts of dialkyldithiophosphoric acids are widely used as flotation promoters and collectors in mineral recovery processes.Insecticides and Fungicides: a complete family of products synthesized from phosphorus pentasulphide is used as agricultural pest control agents. This family includes relatively non-toxic products, such as Malathion, and others, for example Parathion, that are non-persistent, albeit high toxic.
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The Arese manufacturing unit is one of the world’s largest producers of acid chlorides using Phosphorus trichloride technology. A wide product range of distilled acid chlorides of both natural and synthetic origin is regularly available for use in industrial applications, personal care and in pharmaceuticals.
