Reactions of phosgene with water

3 Reactions of phosgene with Group 16 hydrides 9.10.3.1 Reactions of phosgene with water 

The reaction between water and phosgene is, arguably, the most important inorganic reaction of phosgene. However, there has been remarkably little attention paid to this 

In 1937, the reaction between phosgene and water was reported to be completely irreversible [110]  

The first report of the kinetics of phosgene hydrolysis in solution was for toluene solutions, in 1941 [2106] the results of this study are, however, not very reliable. In aqueous 

Phosgene dissolves very slowly in water (see Section 6.6.2), but rapidly in 1 ilf aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, in which the overall reaction is [464]  

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