“…A competing hydrogen-bond acceptor, such as oxygen in oxotrithiotungstate [WOS 3 ] 2À compounds, offers the possibility to investigate the occurrence of NÐHÁ Á ÁO as well as NÐHÁ Á ÁS interactions in the same compound. Although the synthetic aspects of [WOS 3 ] 2À (Mu È ller & Diemann, 1968;McDonald et al, 1983), spectral characteristics (Mu È ller et al, 1969(Mu È ller et al, , 1981, reactivity studies (Ansari et al, 1988) and medical applications (Mason et al, 1989) have been reported in the literature, only two structurally characterized monooxotrithiotungstates, namely K 3 [WOS 3 ]Cl (Krebs et al, 1972) and (pipH) 4 [WOS 3 ][WS 4 ] (pipH is piperidinium) (Siemeling et al, 2006), are known to date. Both reported compounds are double salts and contain Cl À or [WS 4 ] 2À anions in addition to [WOS 3 ] 2À in their structures.…”