Mixed valency vanadium oxides

The electrochemistry of dinuclear vanadium o-A-salicylideneamino-ethylphenyl complexes were investigated.372 Conversion of Viv—Viv dimers to Vv—Vv dimers was reported and serves as a representative model system for oxidation reactions.294 296 A related class of these dinuclear complexes form mixed valence vanadium(IV/V) complexes upon oxidation and exhibit an unusual electron delocalization over the V203 3+ core.310 A V111—Vlv mixed valent, dinuclear bis(salicy-lidene)ethylenediamine (salen) complex underwent multielectron oxidation with dioxygen to yield a Vv—Viv mixed valence complex.302... 

Mixed-valence Oxide Compounds involving Vanadium (iv).—The majority of these compounds involve vanadium-(iv) and -(v) in oxide lattices and much of this work is summarized in Table 3. 

The great recent development in electrochemical techniques will certainly be helpful for the study of redox processes of a metal which can occur in so many oxidation states. Multinuclear NMR spectrometers will allow increased use of 51V resonance as a routine method for the characterization of complexes in solution. Other recent developments are the study of polynuclear complexes, metal clusters (homo and hetero-nuclear) and mixed valence complexes, and it can be anticipated that these topics will soon become important areas of vanadium coordination chemistry, although the isolation of compounds with such complex... 

Stizza et al. (73,274) have investigated amorphous vanadium phosphates, which are also of interest in relation to a XAS study of the butane-maleic anhydride (V, P)0 catalysts (99a). From the V K edge useful information is obtained about the distortions in the vanadium coordination sphere [molecular cage effect on the pre-edge intensity (312)] and on the vanadium oxidation state. Notably, V4+ is silent to most spectroscopic methods. A mixed V4+-V5+ valence state can be measured from the energy shift of the sharp core exciton at the absorption threshold of the Is level of vanadium due to Is -f 3d derived molecular orbitals localized within the first coordination shell of vanadium ions. 

Oxides. TijOa has been investigated by X-ray spectroscopy and by e.p.r. spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibility measurements - there has been an improved MO calculation of its band structure. A band model has been proposed to account for the origin of the magnetic moment and metallic transition of vanadium-doped Ti203- According to e.p.r. measurements the Ti ions in mixed valence phases of the system Ti 0 mined. 

Vanadium oxide belongs to the well-known family of mixed-valence compounds... 

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