Chemical Property of Molybdenum pentachloride
Chemical Property:
- Appearance/Colour:dark blue to black crystals
- Vapor Pressure:1.75 mm Hg ( 25 °C)
- Melting Point:194 °C(lit.)
- Boiling Point:268 °C(lit.)
- PSA:0.00000
- Density:2.928 g/mL at 25 °C(lit.)
- LogP:3.44750
- Sensitive.:Moisture Sensitive
- Solubility.:Soluble in dry ether, dry alcohol, organic solvents and chlorina
- Water Solubility.:soluble in dry ether and dry alcohol, in other organic solvents [HAW93]
- Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:0
- Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:0
- Rotatable Bond Count:0
- Exact Mass:274.746717
- Heavy Atom Count:6
- Complexity:37.1
- Transport DOT Label:Corrosive
- Purity/Quality:
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98% or more *data from raw suppliers
Molybdenum(V) chloride
*data from reagent suppliers
Safty Information:
- Pictogram(s):
C
- Hazard Codes:C
- Statements:
29-34-48/20/22-40
- Safety Statements:
26-36/37/39-43-45
- MSDS Files:
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SDS file from LookChem
Useful:
- Chemical Classes:Metals -> Metals, Inorganic Compounds
- Canonical SMILES:Cl[Mo](Cl)(Cl)(Cl)Cl
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Physical Properties
Greenish-black monoclinic crystals or dark red as liquid or vapor; paramagnetic; hygroscopic; critical temperature 577°C; critical volume 369 cm3/mol; soluble in dry ether, dry alcohol and many other organic solvents; reacts with water.
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Uses
Chlorination catalyst, vapor-deposited molyb-denum coatings, component of fire-retardant resins,brazing and soldering flux, intermediate fororganometallic compounds, e.g., molybdenum hex-acarbonyl. Molybdenum pentachloride (MoCl5) is used as a brazing and soldering flux and to make
fire-retardant resins. Molybdenum pentachloride MoCl5 is used as a catalyst for several polymerization reactions involving olefins, vinyl monomers, trioxane, ethylene, vinylcyclohexane, cyclopentene, and butadiene.