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Peter Müller Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Peter Müller coauthored crystallographic characterization of a trimetaphosphate-bound molybdenum tricarbonyl anion. The structure establishes facial oxygen coordination of the phosphate ligand.
The result shows how a cyclic oxyanion can act as a multidentate ligand. Counterion identity and coordination geometry remain distinct parts of the characterization.[ref]
Synthesis and characterization of the trimetaphosphate molybdenum tricarbonyl anion [(P3O9)Mo(CO)3]3- as its tris(bis(triphenylphosphine)iminium) salt by Christopher R. Clough and others. Research topic and author attribution in the primary publication
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.