Some new octahalodimolybdates

X-ray photoelectron spectra of inorganic molecules. IX. Distinction between bridging and terminal metal-chlorine bonds in metal halide clusters of rhenium(III) and molybdenum(II)

“…This phase has been investigated by several groups,6-8 but no definitive structural information is yet available. However, Allison,et al ,7 have contended, on the basis of reactivity differences between ß-MoClj and [Mo6Cl8]Cl4/2Cl2 and their strikingly different X-ray powder photographs, that they are not structurally related. Measurement of the molybdenum 3d (231.3 and 228.2 eV) and chlorine 2p (199.9 and 198.4 eV) binding energies of ß-02 confirms this contention.…”

Electrochemistry of molybdenum chloride dimers in a basic ambient-temperature molten salt

“…The visible spectrum of the melt solution after several hours showed that the Mo2C184" anion was being oxidized to the hydride species Mo2C18H3~by the protonic impurities in the melt. 25 Efforts to introduce * 208 into the basic melt were thwarted by the apparent insolubility of this species in the melt. In an acidic melt, the IQMo^lg was observed to react, producing a brown solid.…”