The oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde on silica supported vanadium oxide is studied by density functional theory. For isolated vanadium oxide species silsesquioxane-type models are adopted. The first step is dissociative adsorption of methanol yielding CH3O(O=)V(O-)2 surface complexes. This makes the O=V(OCH3)3 molecule a suited model system. The rate-limiting oxidation step involves hydrog...

The ubiquity of vanadium oxo complexes in the V+ and IV+ oxidation states has contributed to a comprehensive understanding of their electronic structure and reactivity. However, despite being predicted to be stable by ligand-field theory, the isolation and characterization of a well-defined terminal mononuclear vanadium(III) oxo complex has remained elusive. We present the synthesis and charact...

The title oxidovanadium(V) complex, [V(C(17)H(17)N(3)O(2))(CH(3)O)O], was obtained by the reaction of 2-acetyl-phenol, 4-dimethyl-amino-benzohydrazide and vanadyl sulfate in methanol. The V(V) atom is five-coordinated by N,O,O'-donor atoms of the Schiff base ligand, one meth-oxy O atom and one oxide O atom, forming a square-pyramidal geometry.

The investigation of charge transport in organic nanocrystals is essential to understand nanoscale physical properties of organic systems and the development of novel organic nanodevices. In this work, we fabricate organic nanocrystal diodes contacted by rolled-up robust nanomembranes. The organic nanocrystals consist of vanadyl phthalocyanine and copper hexadecafluorophthalocyanine heterojunct...

An aqueous deposition process for V(6)O(13) films is developed whereby the vanadium oxidation state is continuously controlled throughout the entire process. In the precursor stage, a controlled wet chemical reduction of the vanadium(V) source with oxalic acid is achieved and monitored by (51)Vanadium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ((51)V-NMR) and Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. The resu...

Thanks to a homemade dynamic vacuum system, fully crystallized VO2 (M) is successfully synthesized in merged step of vanadyl ethylene glycolate (VEG) decomposition and crystallization at high temperatures (>500 °C). During the whole process, vanadium valence (+4) well maintained, VEG microstructure plays an important role end-product size shape. Finally, suggested route appears suitable for mas...

The oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of propane to propylene by supported vanadia catalysts has received much attention in recent years, but different reactivity trends have been reported for this catalytic reaction system. In the present investigation, the origin of these differing trends are investigated with synthesis of supported V/SiO2, V/TiO2, and V/Al2O3 catalysts prepared with three diff...

The title Schiff base complex, [V(C(13)H(7)BrClNO(2))(CH(3)O)O(CH(3)OH)], features a vanadyl group, a tridentate Schiff base ligand, and coordinated methanol and methano-late ligands. The NO(5) donor set is based on a distorted octa-hedron. Helical supra-molecular chains along [010] are found in the crystal structure mediated by O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds formed between the coordinating methanol mol-...