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.