New Aspects in Phosphorus Chemistry V

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"Modern" hexacoordinated phosphorus chemistry essentially started in 1963 when Allcock and coworkers studied the reaction of phosphonitrilic chlorides with pyrocatechol and isolated the unexpected tris(benzenediolato)phosphate anion 1 (Fig. 1) which sees a central octahedral phosphorus bound to six oxygen atoms [1-4].