The kinetics of the substitution reaction of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene, (NPCI,),, with phenol to synthesize the partially substituted (phenoxy)chlorocyclotriphosphazene was investigated by using triphase catalysis in an organic phase/alkaline solution. The relative reaction-rate constants and the corresponding energies, enthalpies, and entropies of activation of the sequential substitution were also estimated. The diffusional limitations involve both ion diffusion in the aqueous phase and organic reactant diffusion in the organic phase within the catalyst pellet. The particle diffusion and intrinsic reactivity limit the substitution reaction in the organic phase. The diffusion of the aqueous phase in the ionexchange step is the main rate-limiting factor.La cinetique de reaction de substitution de l'hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene, (NPCI,),, avec le phenol pour synthetiser le (ph8noxy)chlorocyclotriphosphazene partiellement substitue, a ete etudiee au moyen de la catalyse triphasique dans une solution alcaline/phase organique. On a egalement estime les constantes de vitesses de reaction relatives et les energies correspondantes, les enthalpies et les entropies d'activation de la substitution sequentielle. Les limitations diffusionnelles concement a la fois la diffusion ionique dans la phase aqueuse et la diffusion des reactifs organiques dans la phase organique a l'interieur de la pastille de catalyseur. La diffusion des particules et la reactivite intrinskque limitent la reaction de substitution dans la phase organique. La diffusion de la phase aqueuse a l'etape de I'echange d'ions est le principal facteur limitant.Keywords: reaction kinetics, phosphazene, sequential reaction, phase-transfer catalysis, triphase.rganophosphazenes can be used as pressurized working 0 fluids, flame-retardants and lubricants (Allcock, 1972).Phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) (Weber and Gokel, 1977;Dehmlow and Dehmlow, 1993;Starks et al., 1994) has also been applied to the field of synthesizing phosphazene (Austin et al., 1983;Carr and Nichols, 1986). These results demonstrate that PTC is an effective method for preparing fully substituted (ary1oxy)phosphazenes and (fluoroalkanoxy) phosphazenes. In recent years, a few studies have investigated the kinetics and mathematical modeling of the sequential reaction of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene (NPCQ . (Sorokin and Latov, 1966; Wu, 1990a, b, 1991a, b;Wu and Meng, 1997).The process using a two-phase (liquid-liquid) phasetransfer catalytic reaction always encounters the separation problem of purifling the f m l product from the catalyst. Regen (1975) first used the solid-phase catalyst (triphase (liquibsolid-liquid) catalyst, TC), in which the tertiary amine was immobilized on a polymer support, in the reaction of an organic reactant and an aqueous reactant. Thus, the insoluble polymer-supported phase-transfer catalyst can be easily separated from the reaction mixtures simply by filtration or centrifugation. The most common method used for triphase catalysis was studied by Regen (1975Rege...