User:Acc20/Trimesityliridium(III)/CantElopeIsland Peer Review

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 * Trimesityliridium
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** Lead:** This is concise and nicely preludes the major sections of the article. Maybe you could add a sentence on why this molecule is relevant, i.e. why people care about it and where it sees the most use.

** Content:** The content is relevant to the topic. I wonder has anything noteworthy been published on this since 2007? The interactive image in the chemical table at the beginning does not match the geometry you have shown in the Lewis structure; the interactive image from jsmol shows the geometry as T-shaped. I guess this is a solvent artifact or something? But maybe you could address this in the properties section.

In the reactivity section, "this degenerate intermetal oxygen atom transfer occurs about twelve orders of magnitude faster than does the osmium analog, leading Seth Brown et al. to conclude in 2007 that the pyramidal nature of both Ir(III) and Ir(V) is responsible for the unique ability of (mes)3IrO to partake in intermetal OAT without placing any electrons in an antibonding orbital." Maybe it is obvious but could you expand on this? There are presumably numerous differences between the osmium and iridium complexes, and so why is it specifically the pyramidal structure that allows for OAT to occur without transferring electrons into antibonding orbitals? What is the geometry of the osmium complex? Later on, what is the distortion that occurs between Ir and mesityl ligands during the formation of the oxo complex, how do bond lengths/angles change?

There could be a section on the electronic structure, geometry, ibo calculations etc.

** Tone and Balance:** The content is neutral and there are not any claims that appear biased towards a particular position. Similarly I think all viewpoints or appropriately represented and there is no attempt at persuasion.

** Sources and References:** In the synthesis section I'm not sure if it's allowed to directly quote the paper like that in the beginning sentence: "essentially the same as that for Rh(mes)3".

** Organization:** The properties section beneath synthesis could be expanded or perhaps integrated into synthesis since it's a couple sentences right now. Maybe you plan to build this out. You could separate the reactivity sections into the oxygen atom transfer by maybe having a section devoted to oxidation catalysis and one for just formation of the oxo complex.

"Co-catalyzed oxidations as described by Brown et al." Is this meant to be a section header?

** Images and Media:** I'd love to see some reaction images and IBO calculations :), and maybe a picture of the solid if you can find it.

** Overall impressions:** The article meets Wikipedia's notability requirement. I'm not familiar with the topic to say if the sources are exhaustive. Good job linking to some other articles. I think the article reads very well and presents the information in an understandable way. The content could be improved with some more detail in some areas, and some sections can be built out e.g. the reactions mentioned in the last paragraph