Inorganic and Coordination Compounds of Vanadium

Unlike metalloporphyrins, the nonporphyrinic metal compounds are poorly characterized with respect to molecular structure and properties. Examining the nature of the nickel and vanadium in these compounds is important from the standpoint that often most of the Ni and V in a petroleum is nonporphyrinic, as shown in Table II. Sugihara et al. (1970) suggested that the nonporphyrin metal compounds comprise a wide variety of coordinated complexes resulting from the reaction of inorganic forms of the metals with polar organic molecules. Larson and Beuther (1966) speculated that the nonporphyrinic metal complexes are simply... 

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