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By the reaction of phosphorous acid and its salts and of hypophosphorous salts with paraform, hydroxymethylphosphonic acid and its salts and bishydroxymethylphosphinic salts were obtained in 90–93% yield.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1230–1233, July, 1964
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Ivanov, B.E., Karpova, T.I. Synthesis and properties of hydroxymethylphosphonic and bishydroxymethylphosphinic acids. Russ Chem Bull 13, 1140–1142 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00863116
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00863116