Method of oxidative degradation of phosphorous esters

US4108746A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · US

Inventors

• Theodore Mill · Palo Alto, US
• Constance W. Gould · Menlo Park, US
• Joseph Epstein · Beer Sheva, IL
• Leon J. Schiff · Baltimore, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 8, 1977
• Grant date: Aug 22, 1978
• Expiry date: Sep 8, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S204/903
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for oxidatively degrading organophosphorous esters to phosphoric id, carbon dioxide and water through the use of a source of free hydroxy radicals, saturation of the resulting solution with oxygen and subsequent irradiation with UV radiation between 220 and 280 nm.