Reaction Chemistry of the -[MoO(μ-S)(S)(DMF)] Complex with Cyanide and Catalytic Thiocyanate Formation.

Removal of cyanide as nontoxic thiocyanate under physiological conditions may serve as a catalytic detoxification route . Aqueous catalytic reaction conditions were explored where at the conditions employed the reaction proceeded to exhaustion in 1 h. The complex, -[MoO(μ-S)(S)(DMF)] , participates in a ligand exchange reaction of the dimethylformamide ligands and cyanide.