A design of experiments was conducted to study the transesterification of tris(p-nitrophenyl) phosphate with sodium methoxide. The factorial design was performed to check the experimental conditions that favored ths yield of bis(p-nitrophenyl) methyl phosphate in a semi-batch process. The experiments were performed using a Mettler RC1 calorimeter. The reaction temperature, the addition order of reagents and the time spent in those additions were analyzed at two different levels. The results showed the addition order of reagents as the most important factor to guarantee the improvement of the reaction yielding bis(p-nitrophenyl) methyl phosphate. It was demonstrated that the temperature has a small effect on the reaction yield between 5 and 30ˆC. An important effect was observed with regard to the addition time of reagents and yield: when the tris(p-nitrophenyl)phosphate is added to the methoxide solution (58% on average) while no effect was observed when the methoxide solution was added to the phosphate (87% on average). Theses results indicated that the addition could be made in times shorter than five minutes under the latter condition.