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of organophosphinous chlorides. For example, treatment of dichlorophenylphosphine with methanol and base gives dimethyl phenylphosphonite:
:Cl₂PPh + 2 CH₃OH -> (CH₃O)₂PPh + 2 HCl

Reactions

Oxidation of phosphonites gives phosphonates:
:2 P(OR)₂R + O₂ -> 2 OP(OR)₂R

Phosphonites can function as ligands

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