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Cover Picture: Low‐Coordinate Phosphorus Compounds (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 5/2016)
Author(s) -
Müller Christian
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1099-0682
pISSN - 1434-1948
DOI - 10.1002/ejic.201690008
Subject(s) - chemistry , phosphorus , cover (algebra) , crystallography , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
The cover picture, designed by Guest Editor Christian Müller, shows the original paper published in Angew. Chemie in 1966 of the synthesis of the first stable low‐coordinate organophosphorus compound, 2,4,6‐triphenylphosphabenzene, by Gottfried Märkl. The structure of the stable yellow crystalline compound is also depicted. This communication was central in changing the way the bonding around phosphorus atoms was viewed, and the demonstration that hybridization was possible for phosphorus led to many reports on formally sp 2 ‐hybridized phosphorus(III) compounds with significantly different properties from those of classical trivalent phosphorus species.