The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals operated as scintillating bolometers. Growth of high quality radiopure crystals is a complex task, since there are no commercially available molybdenum compounds with the required levels of purity and radioactive contamination. This paper discusses approaches to puri...

In recent years the technique of Nuclear Mag­ netic Resonance (NMR) has been successfully ap­ plied to heavier metals such as molybdenum [1 ], manganese [2] or vanadium [3]. Although this method is restricted to diamagnetic compounds, sufficient structural information can be obtained as demonstrated for the series of thiomolybdates Mo0 4 -nSn2(n = 0 — 4) (Ref. [1. 4]). This is espe­ cially true...

Eight homoleptic metal(III) arylchalcogenolate polymers [M(EPh-p-X)(3)](n) (M = Ru, Cr, and Mo) were characterized by PXRD. Structural solution of [Ru(SPh-p-tBu)(3)](n)1 was achieved by Rietveld refinement of the PXRD data. Pyrolysis of [Ru(SePh)(3)](n)4 produced nanostructured RuSe(2), which selectively catalyzed the reduction of nitro compounds in the presence of other functionalities.