By molybdenum

LC, as well as IN-100, B-1900, and MaiM-200 (Table 5). The cast alloys tended to contain less chromium, which was replaced by molybdenum. ... 

About 50% of copper in food is absorbed, usually under equitibrium conditions, and stored in the tiver and muscles. Excretion is mainly via the bile, and only a few percent of the absorbed amount is found in urine. The excretion of copper from the human body is influenced by molybdenum. A low molybdenum concentration in the diet causes a low excretion of copper, and a high intake results in a considerable increase in copper excretion (68). This copper—molybdenum relationship appears to correlate with copper deficiency symptoms in cattle. It has been suggested that, at the pH of the intestine, copper and molybdate ions react to form biologically unavailable copper molybdate (69). 

Recently (79MI50500) Sharpless and coworkers have shown that r-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) epoxidations, catalyzed by molybdenum or vanadium compounds, offer advantages over peroxy acids with regard to safety, cost and, sometimes, selectivity, e.g. Scheme 73, although this is not always the case (Scheme 74). The oxidation of propene by 1-phenylethyl hydroperoxide is an important industrial route to methyloxirane (propylene oxide) (79MI5501). 

Apparent indicator constant 264, 267 Apparent stability constant 59 Aqua regia 111 Arc alternating current, 764 direct current, 763, 771 sensitivities of elements, (T), 766 Aromatic hydrocarbons analysis of binary mixtures, 715 Arsenates, D. of (ti) 357 Arsenic, D. of as silver arsenate, (ti) 357 as trisulphide, (g) 448 by iodine, (am) 634, (ti) 397 by molybdenum blue method, (s) 681 by potassium bromate, (ti) 406 by potassium iodate, (ti) 401 in presence of antimony, (s) 724 Arsenic(III) oxide as primary standard, 261... 

Catalysts. The methanation of CO and C02 is catalyzed by metals of Group VIII, by molybdenum (Group VI), and by silver (Group I). These catalysts were identified by Fischer, Tropsch, and Dilthey (18) who studied the methanation properties of various metals at temperatures up to 800°C. They found that methanation activity varied with the metal as follows ruthenium > iridium > rhodium > nickel > cobalt > osmium > platinum > iron > molybdenum > palladium > silver. 

Hydrodesulfurization of Benzothiophene Catalyzed by Molybdenum Sulfide Cluster Encapsulated into Zeolites... 

It may seem strange that we have left the transfer of sulfur out of this description, but it was available initially as H2S, which diffuses easily, compare H20, and is reactive with metal ions and some organic centres. Sulfur from intermediate states of oxidation of this element, e.g. S2Of, is transferred by molybdenum enzymes. Later, when sulfur became sulfate, a coenzyme (PAPS) was required for its transfer (see aerobes and eukaryotes).)... 

Dimerization and condensation of pentane-2,4-dione by molybdenum(VI) oxide tetrachloride (MoOC14) affords l,3,5,7-tetramethyl-2,4,6,8-tetraoxa-adamantane, the structure of which is determined by elemental analysis, IR, mass, and PMR spectroscopy.188... 

The ring cleavage of 3-aryl-2-substituted-2//-azirines by molybdenum hexacarbonyl has been described earlier in regard to the synthesis of pyrroles, pyrazoles and isoxazoles. In contrast to this behavior, analogous reactions of 2-unsubstituted derivatives lead to the formation of mixtures of 2,5-diarylpyrazines (139) and isomeric 3,6- and 1,6-dihydropyrazine derivatives (140,141) (Scheme 163).47,53 It is possible that the pyrazine products are formed by an intermolecular nitrene mechanism akin to the intramolecular processes described earlier (see Scheme 22 in Section IV,A,1). 

Particularly in autoanalyser methods this wide variation in chloride content of the sample can lead to serious salt errors and, indeed, in the extreme case, can lead to negative peaks in samples that are known to contain ammonia. Salt errors originate because of the changes of pH, ionic strength and optical properties with salinity. This phenomenon is not limited to ammonia determination by autoanalyser methods it has, as will be discussed later, also been observed in the automated determination of phosphate in estuarine samples by molybdenum blue methods. 

Hidalgo et al. [509] reported a method for the determination of molybdenum (VI) in natural waters based on differential pulse polarography. The catalytic wave caused by molybdenum (VI) in nitrate medium following preconcentration by coflotation on ferric hydroxide was measured. For seawater samples, hexadecyltrimethylammomum bromide with octadecylamine was used as the surfactant. The method was applied to molybdenum in the range 0.7-5.7 Xg/l. 

The reaction of olefin epoxidation by peracids was discovered by Prilezhaev [235]. The first observation concerning catalytic olefin epoxidation was made in 1950 by Hawkins [236]. He discovered oxide formation from cyclohexene and 1-octane during the decomposition of cumyl hydroperoxide in the medium of these hydrocarbons in the presence of vanadium pentaoxide. From 1963 to 1965, the Halcon Co. developed and patented the process of preparation of propylene oxide and styrene from propylene and ethylbenzene in which the key stage is the catalytic epoxidation of propylene by ethylbenzene hydroperoxide [237,238]. In 1965, Indictor and Brill [239] published studies on the epoxidation of several olefins by 1,1-dimethylethyl hydroperoxide catalyzed by acetylacetonates of several metals. They observed the high yield of oxide (close to 100% with respect to hydroperoxide) for catalysis by molybdenum, vanadium, and chromium acetylacetonates. The low yield of oxide (15-28%) was observed in the case of catalysis by manganese, cobalt, iron, and copper acetylacetonates. The further studies showed that molybdenum, vanadium, and... 

Henry, R. and J.G. Tundisi. 1982. Evidence of limitation by molybdenum and nitrogen on the growth of the phytoplankton community of the Lobo Reservoir (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Rev. Hydrobiol. Trop. 15 201-208. 

The formation of rings that contain a thioether linkage does not appear to be catalyzed efficiently by Ru, even when terminal olefins are present. On the other hand, molybdenum appears to work relatively well, as shown in Eqs. 30 [207] and 31 [208]. Under some conditions polymerization (ADMET) to give poly-thioethers is a possible alternative [26]. Aryloxide tungsten catalysts have also been employed successfully to prepare thioether derivatives [107,166,169]. Apparently the mismatch between a hard earlier metal center and a soft sulfur donor is what allows thioethers to be tolerated by molybdenum and tungsten. Similar arguments could be used to explain why cyclometalated aryloxycarbene complexes of tungsten have been successfully employed to prepare a variety of cyclic olefins such as the phosphine shown in Eq. 32 [107,193]. 

An extensive literature deals with catalysis by molybdenum compounds (6-15), many of which are isoelectronic with the rhenium analogs of similar but not identical composition. Molybdenum chemistry will not be covered here except by way of comparison. The major oxidation... 

Scheme 22 illustrates a special application of the azide-tetrazole ring closure described by Ponticelli et al. <2004JHC761>. The diazido compound 84 exists as an azide valence bond isomer. When this compound, however, is subjected to reduction by molybdenum hexacarbonyl, one azido group undergoes reduction selectively to an... 

Hidai, M. (1999) Chemical nitrogen fixation by molybdenum and tungsten complexes, Coord. Chem. Rev., 185-186, 99-108. 

Iodide ion-selective electrode The iodide electrode has broad application both in the direct determination of iodide ions present in various media as well as for the determination of iodide in various compounds. It is, for example, important in the determination of iodide in milk [44,64,218, 382, 442], This electrode responds to Hg ions [150, 306, 439] and can be used for the indirect determination of oxidizing agents that react with iodide, such as 10 [305], lOi [158], Pd(II) [117, 347,405] and for the determination of the overall oxidant content, for example in the atmosphere [393], It can also be used to monitor the iodide concentration formed during the reactions of iodide with hydrogen peroxide or perborate, catalyzed by molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium ions, permitting determination of traces of these metals [12,192,193, 194, 195]. The permeability of bilayer lipid membranes for iodide can be measured using an I"... 

Enantioselective cyclic ether is synthesized by molybdenum-catalyzed olefin metathesis. Cyclopentene derivative 85a is reacted with 5 mol% of chiral molybdenum catalyst 76 to give pyran derivative 86a in high yield and high ee... 

The search for a new epoxidation method that would be appropriate for organic synthesis should also, preferably, opt for a catalytic process. Industry has shown the way. It resorts to catalysis for epoxidations of olefins into key intermediates, such as ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. The former is prepared from ethylene and dioxygen with silver oxide supported on alumina as the catalyst, at 270°C (15-16). The latter is prepared from propylene and an alkyl hydroperoxide, with homogeneous catalysis by molybdenum comp e ts( 17) or better (with respect both to conversion and to selectivity) with an heterogeneous Ti(IV) catalyst (18), Mixtures of ethylene and propylene can be epoxidized too (19) by ten-butylhydroperoxide (20) (hereafter referred to as TBHP). 

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