Recent work in the preparation of organically templated metalsulfates under hydrothermal conditions has been extended toinclude the sulfation of
-molybdena through the synthesis of[C
5H
14N
2][(MoO
3)
3(SO
4)]·H
2O. Single crystals were grown underhydrothermal conditions from molybdenum oxide, water, sulfuricacid, and an enantiomerically pure (
R)-2-methylpiperazine sourceand characterized using both single-crystal X-ray diffraction andinfrared spectroscopy. One-dimensional [(MoO
3)
3(SO
4)]
n2n- chains,based on a neutral
-molybdena backbone, are connected throughan extensive hydrogen-bonding network containing [C
5H
14N
2]
2+cations and occluded water molecules. The direction of thehydrogen bonding is primarily dictated by the nucleophilicity ofthe respective oxide ligands, as determined using bond valencesums.