Chemistry Letters, Vol.29, No.2, 140-141, 2000
Reduction of molybdenum(V) chloride with various reducing metals: Reactivity correlations with the descendant Lewis acids
Reactivity of low-valent molybdenum prepared from MoCl5 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 par allel to the acidity of the descendant Lewis acids.