Pamela J. Zapf, Christopher J. Warren, Robert C. Haushalter and Jon Zubieta
Hydrothermal reactions of Na2MoO4·2H2O and MoO3 with MCl2·xH2O (M = Co, Ni, Cu) and 2,2′-bipyridine yield one- and two-dimensional solids, characterized by molybdenum oxide monomers, clusters and chains linked by {M(2,2′-bpy)}2+ groups and represented by the formulae [M(bpy)x- (H2O)yMonO3n +1] (n = 2, M = Cu, x= 1, y = 0; n = 3, M = Co, x = 1, y = 0; n = 4, M = Ni, x = 2, y = 0).