Molybdenum, methyl compound

Molybdenum may be identified at trace concentrations by flame atomic absorption spectrometry using nitrous oxide-acetylene flame. The metal is digested with nitric acid, diluted and analyzed. Aqueous solution of its compounds alternatively may be chelated with 8—hydroxyquinobne, extracted with methyl isobutyl ketone, and analyzed as above. The metal in solution may also be analyzed by ICP/AES at wavelengths 202.03 or 203.84 nm. Other instrumental techniques to measure molybdenum at trace concentrations include x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, neutron activation, and ICP-mass spectrometry, this last being most sensitive. 

In addition to the successful reductive carbonylation systems utilizing the rhodium or palladium catalysts described above, a nonnoble metal system has been developed (27). When methyl acetate or dimethyl ether was treated with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an iodide compound, a trivalent phosphorous or nitrogen promoter, and a nickel-molybdenum or nickel-tungsten catalyst, EDA was formed. The catalytst is generated in the reaction mixture by addition of appropriate metallic complexes, such as 5 1 combination of bis(triphenylphosphine)-nickel dicarbonyl to molybdenum carbonyl. These same catalyst systems have proven effective as a rhodium replacement in methyl acetate carbonylations (28). Though the rates of EDA formation are slower than with the noble metals, the major advantage is the relative inexpense of catalytic materials. Chemistry virtually identical to noble-metal catalysis probably occurs since reaction profiles are very similar by products include acetic anhydride, acetaldehyde, and methane, with ethanol in trace quantities. 

Methyl benzoate, anisole, and diphenyl ether each give sandwich compounds with chromium vapor, although in rather low yield (32, 55, 110). Chromium appears to attack alkyl ethers and this deoxygenation probably competes with complexation with the aromatic oxygen compounds. No simple product has been isolated from chromium atoms and aniline, but bis(7V,7V-dimethylaniline)chromium has been prepared (32). The behavior of molybdenum and tungsten vapors closely resembles that of chromium in reactions with oxygen- and nitrogen-substituted arenes (113). 

A variety of different metal complexes have been screened as catalysts for allylic amination using phenyl hydroxylamine 108 as the nitrogen fragment donor, and it was found that iron-complexes have better redox capacity compared to molybdenum [64]. With the iron compounds, higher yields and a lower amount of hydroxylamine-derived byproducts are obtained. These byproducts constitute one of the problems in this type of allylic amination reactions in general, as their formation is difficult to suppress. The allylic amination reaction of a-methyl styrene 112 with 108 can, e.g., be catalyzed by the molybdenum dioxo complex 107, iron phthalocyanine 114, or by the combination of the iron chlorides 115 [64,65]. It appears from the results in... 

Methyl-3,5-diphenyl-l//-thiopyran 1-oxide forms red air-stable complexes with carbonyls of chromium, molybdenum and tungsten. (78CB1709). X-Ray diffraction measurements on these compounds confirm the non-planarity of the thiabenzene oxide nucleus and reinforce the evidence for high inversion barriers at sulfur. These complexes are found in isomeric forms with either the sulfur-oxygen bond axial to the half-chair conformation adopted by the ring, or the S- methyl group axial the complexes cannot be interconverted. 

In (r-methyl-ir-cyclopentadienylmolybdenum tricarbonyl, the methyl group is attached to the molybdenum by a metal-to-carbon tr-bond, and the cyclopentadienyl group is attached by TT-type bonding, as in sandwich compounds. The material forms yellow crystals, m.p. 124° (decomp.), that are soluble in organic solvents and slowly oxidized by air. Purification is readily effected by vacuum sublimation. The infrared and n.m.r. spectra have been described. ... 

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