to about 100 based on the weight of the carrier and reaction product suitable oleaginous carriers include base stock animal oils vegetable oils mineral oil synthetic oils and mixtures thereof the amount of reaction product per se measured as a function of molybdenum wt active ingredient in the final formulated oil will range from 0 004 wt to 0 4 wt and preferably from 0 005 wt to 0 2 wt the lubricating composition according to the invention requires a major amount of lubricating oil basestock in general the lubricating oil basestock will have a kinematic viscosity ranging from about 2 to about 1 000 cst at 40 u00b0 c the lubricating oil basestock can be derived from natural lubricating oils synthetic lubricating oils or mixtures thereof suitable lubricating oil basestocks include basestocks obtained by isomerization of synthetic wax and slack wax as well as hydrocrackate basestocks produced by hydrocracking rather than solvent extracting the aromatic and polar components of the crude natural lubricating oils include animal oils vegetable oils e g castor oils and lard oil petroleum oils mineral oils and oils derived from coal or shale and mixtures thereof synthetic oils include hydrocarbon oils and halo substituted hydrocarbon oils such as polymerized and interpolymerized olefins alkylbenzenes polyphenyls alkylated diphenyl ethers alkylated diphenyl ethers alkylated diphenyl sulfides as well as their derivatives analogs and homologs thereof and the like synthetic lubricating oils also include alkylene oxide polymers interpolymers copolymers and derivatives thereof wherein the terminal hydroxyl groups have been modified by esterification etherification etc another suitable class of synthetic lubricating oils comprises the esters of dicarboxylic acids with a variety of alcohols esters useful as synthetic oils also include.