“…However, high and variable coordination numbers of the early transition metals, [19, 30, 31] lanthanides, [26, 42] or actinides [16, 30, 43] combined with the condensation equilibria of chalcophosphates44 may lead to structural arrangements of astounding complexity, as the above examples indicate. Bidentate ligands such as PS 4 3– or P 2 S 6 2– can act as quasilinear twofold bridging connectors between 6‐ or eight‐coordinate transition metal atoms, thus leading to a pseudotrigonal (for 6‐coordination as in A Ti 2 (PS 4 ) 3 ( A = Li, Na, Ag) [25c, 40] and Ag 2 NbTi 2 P 6 S 25 ,40 or pseudotetrahedral (for 8‐coordination as in U(P 2 S 6 ) 2 ,16 CsLiU(PS 4 ) 2 , or Na 2 U(PS 4 ) 2 ) environments for the metal atoms. The coordination preferences of the metal component are an important factor in the choice of the structure (and properties) of thiophosphates.…”