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MoCl5

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Molybdenum pentachloride (MoCl₅) is a transition metal halide compound that exists primarily as a molecular solid or volatile liquid depending on temperature. It functions as a reactive precursor and catalyst in chemical synthesis rather than as a structural material, and is commonly encountered in laboratory and industrial chemical processing environments. MoCl₅ is valued in the chemical industry for catalyzing organic reactions, producing molybdenum-containing coatings via chemical vapor deposition, and serving as a starting material for synthesizing other molybdenum compounds; engineers select it when molybdenum's catalytic properties are needed without the constraints of working with bulk metallic molybdenum.

chemical catalysischemical vapor deposition precursororganometallic synthesislaboratory reagentthin film depositionspecialty chemicals production

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Property	Value	Unit	Conditions
Bulk Modulus(K)	-17.10	GPa	DFT · OptB88vdW
Poisson's Ratio(ν)	0.4900	-	DFT · OptB88vdW
Shear Modulus(G)	-11.24	GPa	DFT · OptB88vdW

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Property	Value	Unit	Conditions	Source
Density(ρ)	3.039	kg/m³	DFT · OptB88vdW

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Property	Value	Unit	Conditions
Band Gap(Eg)2 entries	0.000	eV	DFT · OptB88vdW
↳	0.000	eV	DFT · TBmBJ
Magnetic Moment(μB)	1.997	µB	DFT · OptB88vdW
Thermoelectric Power Factor(PF)2 entries	0.000215	W/(m·K²)	DFT · OptB88vdW · n-type · 1e20 cm⁻³ · 327°C
↳	0.000225	W/(m·K²)	DFT · OptB88vdW · p-type · 1e20 cm⁻³ · 327°C
Seebeck Coefficient(S)2 entries	-63.82	μV/K	DFT · OptB88vdW · n-type · 1e20 cm⁻³ · 327°C
↳	-68.04	μV/K	DFT · OptB88vdW · p-type · 1e20 cm⁻³ · 327°C

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Energy Above Hull(ΔEhull)	0.000	eV/atom	DFT · OptB88vdW
Formation Energy(ΔHf)2 entries	-0.8511	eV/atom	DFT · OptB88vdW
↳	-0.9100	eV/atom	Measured

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