The 31 P chemical shift anisotropies have been measured at 293 K for the triphenylphosphine ligands in solid pentacarbonyl(triphenylphosphine)chromium(0), Cr(CO) 5 (PPh 3 ) (1), and cis-and trans-tetracarbonyl(triphenylphosphine)(thiocarbonyl)chromium(0), Cr(CO) 4 (PPh 3 )(CS) (2 and 3). The major changes in the shift tensors occur for the δ 11 and δ 22 components perpendicular to the Cr-P bond direction. The individual tensor components of the 31 P chemical shifts are clearly more important than are the isotropic values in providing information on the chromium-phosphorus bonding. The crystal structure of 3 has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The complex crystallizes in the monoclinic P2 1 /n (No. 14) space group with cell constants (at 293 K) a ) 9.558(5) Å, b ) 15.275(2) Å, c ) 15.341(2) Å, ) 96.66(2)°, V ) 2225(1) Å 3 and Z ) 4; R ) 0.069 and R w ) 0.067. The crystal structure of 1 has been reported previously and most of the structural features are quite similar to those for 3. For instance, the Cr-P distances are 2.422(4) Å for 1 and 2.424(4) Å for 3. The P-Cr-C(S) and Cr-C-S linkages in 3 are almost linear with the angles being 178.4(4) and 174.