A single-crystal X-ray analysis has shown the [Fe4(CO)13H]– anion to contain a butterfly arrangement of metal atoms; twelve carbonyl groups are terminally bonded, three to each iron atom, whereas the thirteenth carbonyl group interacts with all the four iron atoms and behaves as a four-electron ligand.
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Manassero et al. (1976) studied this question.