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Chem. Commun., 1997, 1523 - 1524, DOI: 10.1039/a703105j

Phosphorus monoxide as a terminal ligand

Marc J. A. Johnson, Aaron L. Odom and Christopher C. Cummins

Dimethyldioxirane oxidation of phosphide PMo[N(R)Ar]3 [R = C(CD3)2Me, Ar = C6H3Me2-3,5] efficiently provides (OP)Mo[N(R)Ar]3, a complex shown by X-ray crystallography to contain a terminal phosphorus monoxide ligand, and which reacts with dimethylzirconocene to give addition of a Zr–Me bond across the phosphoryl moiety.