molybdenum

• Formula: Mo
• Molecular weight: 95.96
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/Mo Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: ZOKXTWBITQBERF-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7439-98-7
• Chemical structure:
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to Mo⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Bilodeau, Scheer, et al., 1998
Bilodeau, R.C.; Scheer, M.; Haugen, H.K., Infrared Laser Photodetachment of Transition Metal Negative Ions: Studies on Cr-, Mo-, Cu-, and Ag-, J. Phys. B: Atom. Mol. Opt. Phys., 1998, 31, 17, 3885-3891, https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/31/17/013 . [all data]

Gunion, Dixon-Warren, et al., 1996
Gunion, R.F.; Dixon-Warren, J.; Lineberger, W.C.; Morse, M.D., Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Molybdenum and Molybdenum Monoxide Anions, J. Chem. Phys., 1996, 104, 5, 1765, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.470975 . [all data]

Bengali, Casey, et al., 1992
Bengali, A.A.; Casey, S.M.; Cheng, C.-L.; Dick, J.P.; Fenn, T.; Villaalta, P.W.; Leopold, D.G., Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Coordinatively Unsaturated Group VI Metal Carbonyls: Cr(CO)3, Mo(CO)3, and W(CO)3, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1992, 114, 13, 5257, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00039a043 . [all data]

Feigerle, Corderman, et al., 1981
Feigerle, C.S.; Corderman, R.R.; Bobashev, S.V.; Lineberger, W.C., Binding Energies and Structure of Transition Metal Negative Ions, J. Chem. Phys., 1981, 74, 3, 1580, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.441289 . [all data]

Lide, 1992
Lide, D.R. (Editor), Ionization potentials of atoms and atomic ions in Handbook of Chem. and Phys., 1992, 10-211. [all data]

Rayner, Mitchell, et al., 1987
Rayner, D.M.; Mitchell, S.A.; Bourne, O.L.; Hackett, P.A., First-ionization potential of niobium and molybdenum by double-resonance, field-ionization spectroscopy, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 1987, 4, 900. [all data]

Rauh and Ackermann, 1979
Rauh, E.G.; Ackermann, R.J., The first ionization potentials of the transition metals, J. Chem. Phys., 1979, 70, 1004. [all data]

Hildenbrand, 1976
Hildenbrand, D.L., Thermochemical studies of the gaseous lower valent fluorides of molybdenum, J. Chem. Phys., 1976, 65, 614. [all data]

Moore, 1970
Moore, C.E., Ionization potentials and ionization limits derived from the analyses of optical spectra, Natl. Stand. Ref. Data Ser., (U.S. Natl. Bur. Stand.), 1970, 34, 1. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy

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