“…The folding of the P 1--O4--P2--O7--P3 chain is forced by the strong hydrogen bond 02-..H2P.--O 10 which keeps the two extremities of the anion together, giving an eightmembered highly puckered ring. This hydrogen-bonded cyclization occurs in all the five compounds containing the H2P3Old-anion retrieved by an ICSD search (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, release January 1994) (Merritt & Sundaralingam, 1981;Lutsko & Johansson, 1984;Lutsko, Lyakhov, Tuchkovskii & Palkina, 1991;Lyakhov, Palkina, Lutsko, Maximova & Chibiskova, 1990;Lyakhov, Lutsko, Tuchkovskii & Palkina, 1991). For a sixth compound containing the anion, the hydrogen coordinates are not provided (Palkina, Maksimova & Kuznetsov, 1979).…”