Phosphorus-based specialties
Global leader in Phosphorus technologies
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
- Phosphonic Acid derivatives
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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, flame retardants and the production of lithium-ion battery electrolytes. 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 is 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.
Solid-state batteries: we provide key raw materials for the next generation solid-state batteries based on Lithium, Phosphorus and Sulphur.
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nOPA is a special product used in Titanium Dioxide coating applications for food contact approvals. Furthermore, nOPA is specifically recommended as corrosion inhibitors in Aluminium metal cleaning formulations and surface treatments.
