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Molybdenum(V) chloride

95%

Synonym(s):

Molybdenum pentachloride, Pentachloromolybdenum

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Linear Formula:
MoCl5
CAS Number:
10241-05-1
Molecular Weight:
273.21
NACRES:
NA.23
PubChem Substance ID:
24852509
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
MDL number:
MFCD00003467
Assay:
95%
Form:
powder

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Product Name

Molybdenum(V) chloride, 95%

InChI

1S/5ClH.Mo/h5*1H;/q;;;;;+5/p-5

SMILES string

Cl[Mo](Cl)(Cl)(Cl)Cl

InChI key

GICWIDZXWJGTCI-UHFFFAOYSA-I

vapor pressure

1.75 mmHg ( 25 °C)
131 mmHg ( 250 °C)

assay

95%

form

powder

reaction suitability

core: molybdenum
reagent type: catalyst

impurities

<0.5% insoluble matter

bp

268 °C (lit.)

mp

194 °C (lit.)

density

2.928 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

Quality Level

100

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Application

Molybdenum(V) chloride can be used as an efficient catalyst for:
  • Condensation of nitrobenzene with alcohols and C-C coupling of alkenyllithium reagents.
  • Direct amidation of benzylic alcohols with sulfonamides and carbamates.
It can be used for the chlorination of alkyl halides, alkenes, and alkynes.

It can also be used as aprecursor to synthesize alumina/molybdenum nanocomposites and methylenemolybdenumreagents for chemoselective carbonyl alkenation.

General description

Molybdenum(V)chloride is a Lewis acid widely used as a catalyst and reagent in many organicreactions. It can be prepared by direct chlorination of molybdenum metal or byrefluxing thionyl chloride and MoO3.

pictograms

Health hazardCorrosion
GHS08,GHS05

signalword

Danger

hcodes

H314,H351

Hazard Classifications

Carc. 2 - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

Regulatory Information

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Kumar, S. Manickam, M.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England), 1615-1615 (1997)
Kristina Hackeloer et al.
Organic letters, 13(5), 916-919 (2011-02-02)
A domino sequence involving various MoCl(5)-mediated oxidations followed by trapping and supposed [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement provides a fast access to the full carbon skeleton of metasequirin-B. A variety of different moieties R(1) and R(2) are tolerated.
H I Ogawa et al.
Mutation research, 320(1-2), 133-140 (1994-01-01)
A series of metal chlorides were subjected to the wing spot test of Drosophila melanogaster. In the test, larvae trans-heterozygous for the wing-hair mutations mwh and flr were orally treated at the third instar stage with a test compound and
Mladen Litvić et al.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 22(11), 3676-3681 (2012-05-02)
Mo(VI) and Mo(V) salts both react selectively with Hantzsch esters to produce substitute pyridines in good-to-excellent yield (75-99%). The remarkable reactivity and selectivity of MoOCl(4) under reflux of acetonitrile and MoCl(5) in dichloromethane at room temperature encouraged us to propose
Simon Trosien et al.
Organic letters, 14(12), 2976-2979 (2012-06-05)
The strong oxidative power of molybdenum pentachloride gives rise to an efficient oxidative C-C bond formation of benzil derivatives to the corresponding 9,10-phenanthrenequinones. A highly complementary method to previous approaches was developed. The required derivatives are accessible in a modular

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