Vanadium spectroscopic term

VO(acac)2 < VO(Et-acac)2 VO(Me-acac)2 BMOV. Conversion rates for all hydrolysis products were faster than for the original species. Both EPR and visible spectroscopic studies of solutions prepared for administration to diabetic rats ocumented both a salt effect on the species formed and formation of a new halogen-containing complex. The authors concluded that vanadium compound efficacy with respect to long-term lowering of plasma glucose levels in diabetic rats traced the concentration of the hydrolysis product in the administration solution. 

It was already shown that spectroscopic states of vanadium monoxide are numerous and difficult to interpret in terms of one-electron based theories. At the same time, due to the existence of broad and very careful experimental evidence, they are a good subject for theoretical studies even if they do not strictly keep within the established bounds but push forward the understanding of physical phenomena. 

Vanadium. Vanadyl complexes of the three ligands 14, 24, and 28 were prepared from vanadyl sulfate and the metal-free ligands. They have the expected spectroscopic properties, and this is confirmed by the X-ray crystal structure of the vanadyl complex of 24, which is shown in Fig. 23(a) and has metal-donor bond distances in the expected range. In terms of reactivity, these complexes are rather unspectacular. No haloperoxidase reactivity was observed, and oxidation of alkanes and alkenes is rather sluggish (138). This is not unexpected since with the pentadentate ligands there is no free site at the vanadium(IV) center for metal-substrate interaction. The same is true for the vanadium(V) oxo-peroxo complexes with tetradentate coordination of the pentadentate ligand. 

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