Christopher R. Clough Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Triphenylphosphine is , a neutral phosphine ligand whose phenyl substituents affect both steric demand and electronic donation.
Christopher R. Clough, Jared S. Silvia, Peter Müller and Christopher C. Cummins, Inorganica Chimica Acta 382 (2012), 195–198. Reports crystallographic characterization of the facial O-bound tricarbonyl anion. The isolated counterion in that work is PPN, so its yield and solubility should not be transferred to a sodium-salt preparation.