Chemical Reactions
Molybdenum disulfide is stable in air (hence its existence as a common mineral) and oxygen at normal conditions, but reacts with oxygen upon heating forming molybdenum trioxide:
- 2 MoS2 + 9 O2 → 2 MoO3 + 4 SO3
Chlorine attacks molybdenum disulfide at elevated temperatures to form molybdenum pentachloride:
- 2 MoS2 + 7 Cl2 → 2 MoCl5 + 2 S2Cl2
Molybdenum disulfide reacts with alkyl lithium under controlled conditions to form intercalation compounds LixMoS2. With butyl lithium, the product is LiMoS2.
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