The title compound was hydrothermally synthesized from elemental vanadium, phosphoric and boric acids, and ethylenediamine. It is isostructural with the mixed-valence titanium phosphate TiTi(HPO4)4?enH?H2O (TPO-2) but differs in electronic states and in its magnetic properties. The structure [tetragonal, I41, a ~ 6.3881(4) and c ~ 16.608(1) Å] is of the open-framework type and is composed of co...

The success of the clinical uses of cisplatin, cis-[Pt(II)(NH(3))(2)Cl(2)], has stimulated considerable interest in using other metal complexes as new therapeutic agents. This perspective describes our recent work on several classes of gold(III), platinum(II), ruthenium(II, III, IV), iron(II) and vanadium(IV) complexes for anti-cancer and anti-HIV treatments.

Since Henze discovered vanadium in the blood (or coelomic) cells of an ascidian in 1911, this unusual phenomenon has attracted the interest of many investigators. The highest concentration of vanadium (350 mM) in the blood cells of Ascidia gemmata, which belongs to the suborder Phlebobranchia, is 10(7) times higher than that in seawater. Of the approximately 10 types of blood cells, a combinati...

Shewanella oneidensis couples anaerobic oxidation of lactate, formate, and pyruvate to the reduction of vanadium pentoxide (V(V)). The bacterium reduces V(V) (vanadate ion) to V(IV) (vanadyl ion) in an anaerobic atmosphere. The resulting vanadyl ion precipitates as a V(IV)-containing solid.

A rapid method is presented for measuring V(IV) and V(V) in groundwater, without preconcentration or complexing agents, using direct injection of the water samples (which were collected under an argon atmosphere) into an ion chromatograph-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS). The mobile phase is 1.5% v/v nitric acid, which minimizes the buildup of solids in the ultrasonic nebuli...

Solid-liquid extraction separation based on a speciation method was studied for selective determination of vanadium (IV) and vanadium (V). Both V (IV) and V (V) cations transform to oxo-acid anion along with pH changes in the solution. The pH values for the transition points are different from each other and the difference was utilized in the separation. In the first step, particulate samples a...

About 90 years ago, Henze discovered high levels of vanadium in the blood (coelomic) cells of an ascidian collected from the Bay of Naples. His discovery attracted the interdisciplinary attention of chemists, physiologists, and biochemists. Two decades ago, we quantified the vanadium levels in several ascidian tissues definitively using neutron-activation analysis and revealed that some species...