Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate is the chemical compound with the formula [NH4]2MoS4. This bright red ammonium salt is an important reagent in the chemistry of molybdenum and has been used as a building block in bioinorganic chemistry. The thiometallate anion has the distinctive property of undergoing oxidation at the sulfur centers concomitant with reduction of the metal from Mo(VI) to Mo(IV).
