“…The Au-P distances are short. They lie below Au-P values found for gold-phosphine clusters Irange 2.267 (2) (Jones, 1980a;Jones & Sheldrick, 1980a,b;Muir et al, 1980;Nesmeyanov, Perevalova, Struchkov, Ant[pin, Grandberg & Dyadchenko, 1980;Riley & Davis, 1980;Schmidbaur, Mandl, Bassett, Blaschke & Zimmer-Gasser, 1981;Simon & Lauher, 1980;Smyslova, Perevalova, Dyadchenko, Grandberg, Slovokhotov & Struchkov, 1981;Solans, Miravitlles, Arrieta, Germain & Declercq, 1982) and the long distances in three-and four-coordinate Au x complexes [range 2.359(6)-2.610(9)A] (Guggenberger, 1974;Jones, 1980b,c;Jones, Sheldrick, Fugner, Gotzfried & Beck, 1981).…”