Molybdenum, determination dimer

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... 

Various approaches to the analysis of dissolved silicon have been tried. Most of them are based on the formation of /J-molybdosilic acid [ 199-203 ]. Dissolved silicon exists in seawater almost entirely as undissociated orthosilicic acid. This form and its dimer, termed reactive silicate , combine with molybdosilicic acid to form a- and /I-molybdosilicic acid [180]. The molybdosilicic acid can be reduced to molybdenum blue, which is determined photometrically [206]. The photometric determination of silicate as molybdenum blue is sufficiently sensitive for most seawater samples. It is amenable to automated analysis by segmented continuous flow analysers [206-208]. Most recent analyses of silicate in seawater have, therefore, used this chemistry. Furthermore, reactive silicate is probably the only silicon species in seawater that can be used by siliceous organisms [204]. 

At high acid concentration, particularly in perchloric acid medium, molybdenum(VI) shows a strong tendency to dimerize (68-71). The value for the dimerization constant of the cation [Mo02(OH)(H20)3]+ in 3.0 M Na(H)C104 medium has been determined, K = 97 15 (71). 

A crystal structure determination of [pyH]4[Mo203(S04)(NCS)6] has shown the two molybdenum atoms to be bridged by one oxo and the sulfato ligand. The terminal oxygens are syn and each molybdenum has a distorted octahedral geometry.415 Persulfide bridges have been identified in several dimeric Mov complexes. In each molybdenum is... 

The recent report of the reaction of Mo2(02CCH3)4 with 2,6-dimethoxy-phenyllithium to form Mo2(DMP)4 is highly significant in view of the resulting value determined for the molybdenum-molybdenum separation in this dimer (90). 

In the case of the alkoxides and phenoxides of molybdenum(III) the interaction between metal atoms becomes dominant, leading to diamagnetic compounds of stoichiometry Mo2(OR)6 or Mo4(OR )i2(R/ = the less bulky Me or Et).78 These compounds are readily sublimable, (70-90 °C/ 10-3 Torr for Mo OPr1 ) and retain either their dimeric or tetrameric nature both in solution and the gas phase, as determined by cryoscopic measurements and mass spectrometry, respectively.78 An analogous tungsten(III) complex W2(OBu )6 can be obtained, but for other alkoxides the simple homoleptic compounds cannot be isolated.79,168... 

The molecular complexity of molybdenum (IV) alkoxides is determined by the size and ramification of the alkyl group — the polymeric (R = Me), dimeric (CN = 5, two bridging OR-groups, R = Pr ) with a double metal-metal bond, and even monomers (R = Bu ). The first representatives of W(OR)4 homologous series are tetramers with the [Ti4(OMe)16]-type structure. The derivatives of ramified or bulky alcohols are known only as mixed-ligand complexes (such as dimeric solvates of alkoxide halids with alcohols, various alkoxide hidrides and monomeric complexes with phenantroline, see Table 12.19). 

The half-life of 181W has been re-investigated and a value of 120.95 + 0.02 days determined, which differs significantly from the currently accepted value 272 The u.v. absorption spectra of molybdenum atoms isolated in rare-gas matrices at 14 K have been correlated with similar gas-phase spectral data and assigned in spherical symmetry. Diffusion of the metal atoms in an Ar matrix was also studied and some tentative evidence obtained for dimer formation.273 The standard heat of vapourization of molybdenum has been determined274 as 689.3 kJ (g atom)-1. 

Susuki and Tsuji reported the first Kharasch addition/carbonylation sequences to synthesize halogenated acid chlorides from olefins, carbon tetrachloride, and carbon monoxide catalyzed by [CpFe(CO)2]2 [101]. Its activity is comparable to or better than that of the corresponding molybdenum complex (see Part 1, Sect. 7). Davis and coworkers determined later that the reaction does not involve homolysis of the dimer to a metal-centered radical, which reduces the organic halide, but that radical generation occurs from the dimeric catalyst after initial dissociation of a CO ligand and subsequent SET [102]. The reaction proceeds otherwise as a typical metal-catalyzed atom transfer process (cf. Part 1, Fig. 37, Part 2, Fig. 7). 

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