“…Phosphine oxide, OPH 3 and phosphine sulphide, SPH 3 , together with their tautomers HOPH 2 , HSPH 2 and halogen derivatives have been extensively studied in several theoretical papers [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] These studies were mainly focused on the molecular structure and the nature of the P-X (X=O,S) bond [1,2,4,10,13,15], on the tautomerization energetics and reaction paths [1,9,14,15,17] and on vibrational spectra [1,3,[5][6][7][8] Comparatively, much less experimental work has been done. To date, only the Argon matrix infrared spectrum of OPH 3 has been observed [18], while the identification of SPH 3 from a similar experiment [19] has failed.…”