“…Three-coordinate metal centers are also present in a related family of binuclear M 2 L 4 complexes (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) prepared in recent years, which bear amido terminal ligands and amido or phosphido bridges. ,− Other than these compounds in which the bulky ligands may give sterical protection to the metal center, thus favoring the coordinative unsaturation, some remarkable cases of bare three-coordinate compounds are known. These include the mononuclear [MN 3 ] 6- ions in Ca 6 MN 5 (M = Mn, Fe) and A 3 MN 3 families (A = alkaline earth; M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe), − some trihalides MX 3 (X = F, M = V, Cr, Fe; X = Cl, M = Ti, Fe; X = I, M = Ti) studied by electron diffraction in the gas phase, − and the mononuclear Hoppe anions [MO 3 ] n- (M = Fe, Co). − Tricoordinated metal atoms can also be found in the oxo-bridged binuclear [M 2 O 5 ] 6- (M = Fe − and Co , ) and in the tetranuclear [Co 4 O 9 ] 10- anions. Finally, edge-sharing tricoordinate transition metal atoms appear in the binuclear Hoppe anion [Co 2 O 4 ], - as well as in Cr 2 Cl 4 and Co 2 Br 4 , in which each metal atom is trigonally coordinated by bare oxide or halide anions.…”