Vanadium oxide phosgene

As a specific example of the correlations we have observed, our experimental results demonstrate that the reactions of vanadium and niobium oxide cluster cations with methanol lead to dehydrogenation of methanol under single collision conditions producing neutral formaldehyde [16]. Formaldehyde is, indeed, a major product formed from methanol over condensed-phase vanadia surfaces [17]. Another study conducted in our laboratory showed that,, Clj products were formed during the reaction between certain clusters and CCl, leaving phosgene (COClj) as the most likely neutral product [15, 18]. The decomposition of... 

Vanadium(V) oxide is reported to react with phosgene at 350 C to give vanadium(IV) chloride, whereas tantalum(V) oxide reacts with phosgene to give tantalum(V) chloride [360] ... 

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