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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 5#️⃣ Question 15🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Radosevich group at MIT have been developing homogeneous catalysts based on inexpensive and earth-abundant elements of the p-block such as phosphorus. One such catalyst has a phosphine oxide in the +5 oxidation state as one of the species in the catalytic cycle. What is the most likely oxidation state of phosphorus for the reduced version of the phosphine oxide?

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