“…Most oxides reported in the literature have been prepared using sealed tantalum, niobium, or fused silica tubes. 11,[25][26][27][28][29][30] Our approach is based on the in situ reduction of Mo(VI) using Mo metal as a reducing agent, which was successful in preparing, to the best of our knowledge, the first reduced lanthanum molybdenum oxychloride. A limited number of lanthanum molybdenum oxychlorides are known including LnCl[MoO 4 ] Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Sm -Lu 31,32 , however these materials contain Mo(VI) exclusively.…”