A novel mixed-valence polyoxomolybdenum anion, [Mo(V)(7)Mo(VI)O(16)(O(3)PPhPO(3)H)(4)](3)(-), was synthesized hydrothermally from molybdenum oxide, molybdenum metal, boric and phosphoric acids, 1,2-phenyldiphosphonic acid, and imidazole (ImH) and was structurally characterized as an imidazolium salt (orthorhombic, Aba2; a = 16.674(4), b = 17.238(1), and c = 24.81(2) A). One- and two-dimensional...

Efficient total syntheses of fluvibactin and vibriobactin have been achieved via molybdenum(VI) oxide-catalyzed dehydrative cyclization, Sb(OEt)(3)-catalyzed ester-amide transformation, and WSCI and HOAt-promoted dehydrative amide formation.

Diferrocenyl/diferrocenium substituted dioxido molybdenum(VI) complexes [Fe2MoO2] 2(Fc)/[2(FC)]²⁺ mimic the catalytic active site including the redox subunits as well as the catalytic function of bacterial sulphite oxidases.

A (perarylcyclopentadienyl)molybdenum(VI) dioxo complex is shown to catalyse epoxidation of cyclooctene by t-butylhydroperoxide, but decomposition to a much more active non-cyclopentadienyl containing catalyst occurs as the reaction proceeds.

Ferron has been used as an analytical reagent for the extractive spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum(V) obtained from the reduction of molybdenum(VI) with ascorbic acid. Molybdenum(V) in presence of a large number of cations, anions and complexing agents forms a yellow complex with ferron that is quantitatively extractable into tri-n-octylamine-chloroform from 1 M H2SO4 medium. The c...

Single crystals of NdBO(2)MoO(4) were obtained from a molybdenum oxide-boron oxide flux under an air atmosphere. The structure features double chains of edge- and face-sharing distorted [NdO(10)] bicapped square-anti-prisms, which are linked by rows of isolated [MoO(4)] tetra-hedra and by zigzag chains of corner-sharing [BO(3)] groups, all of them running along the b axis. The chains of [NdO(10...

A toluene-soluble molybdenum(vi) complex containing a bulky hydrophobic substituent, (Et4N)2[Mo(VI)O2{1,2-S2-3,6-(RCONH)2C6H2}2] (R = (4-(t)BuC6H4)3C), was dissolved in the hydrophobic core of a micelle in an aqueous medium and catalyzed the biomimetic reduction of an amine N-oxide by an NADH analog. The kinetic isotope effect of solvent water clearly indicates that water molecules are essentia...

The dioxomolybdenum(vi) complex ((t)BuClipH2)MoO2 ((t)BuClipH4 = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-N,N'-bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)-2,2'-diaminobiphenyl) reacts with 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol to form oxo-free ((t)BuClip)Mo(3,5-(t)Bu2Cat). The bis(amidophenoxide)-monocatecholate complex is monomeric and exhibits a cis-β geometry in the solid state. Variable-temperature NMR data are consistent with t...

In the title benzil-idene Schiff base molybdenum(VI) complex, [Mo(C(15)H(12)N(2)O(3))O(2)(CH(3)OH)], the Mo(VI) ion is coordinated by two oxide O atoms and by two O atoms and one N atom of the tridentate N'-(3-meth-oxy-2-oxidobenzyl-idene)benzo-hydrazidate (L) Schiff base ligand. The methanol O atom completes the distorted octa-hedral configuration of the Mo(VI) atom. Strong O-H⋯N hydrogen bond...