Following the recommendation of a reviewer, the X-ray crystal structure determination of 0=Mo(TPP)OMe has been undertaken. At the present level of refinement the complex clearly exhibits a trans oxomethoxo axial ligation of the molybdenum atom, which is slightly displaced out of the mean plane of the porphyrin, toward the oxo ligand:
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