Chemistry Letters

Reduction of Molybdenum (V) Chloride with Various Reducing Metals: Reactivity Correlations with the Descendant Lewis Acids.

R Hara, Q Guo, T Takahashi

Index: Hara, Ryuichiro; Guo, Qiaoxia; Takahashi, Tamotsu Chemistry Letters, 2000 , # 2 p. 140 - 141

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Abstract

Reactivity of low-valent molybdenum prepared from MoCl 5 with various reducing metals in DME, was dependent on the reducing metals in the order of Al> Sn, In> Zn, Mg, Li in the case of cyclotrimerization of alkynes. This order is parallel to the acidity of the descendant Lewis acids.