Electron-nuclear spin transitions in short-lived phosphonyl radicals have been investigated experimentally by nuclear magnetic resonance detection of nuclear polarization in diamagnetic reaction products in low magnetic fields (15-80 mT) for 3~p-centered radicals formed in laser photolysis of (2,4,6-t¡ oxide and 2,4,£ acid dimethyl ester. A theoretical model on the basis of the numerical sotution of the kinetic equation for the density matrix of a radical with one nonzero hyperfine coupling constant has been employed to study the main peculiarities of this effect and to account for the data quantitatively.