Products from the thermolysis of PhNCO and [MoO 2 (S 2 CNR 2 ) 2 ] (R = Me, Et) are highly dependent upon the reaction conditions. When carried out in air, the major products are cations, [Mo(NPh)(S 2 CNR 2 ) 3 ] ? , as shown by a crystal structure of [Mo(NPh)(S 2 CNEt 2 ) 3 ] 2 [Mo 6 O 19 ]. Under rigorously anaerobic conditions, reaction of two equivalents of PhNCO with [MoO 2 (S 2 CNR 2 ) 2 ] affords [Mo(NPh) 2 -(S 2 CNR 2 ) 2 ] as the major product. However, chloroform solutions of the bis(imido) complexes hydrolyze in air to afford [Mo(NPh)(S 2 CNR 2 ) 2 (l-MoO 4 )] 2 , in which molybdate groups bridge between molybdenum(VI) imidobis(dithiocarbamate) centers. These results are placed in context of our earlier studies of these reactions that lead to the formation of oxo-disulfide [MoS 2 (NPh)(S 2 CNR 2 ) 2 ] and dimeric molybdenum(V) [MoO(l-NPh)(S 2 CNR 2 )] 2 complexes, thus allowing a full picture of these transformations to be established.