David Collison, C. David Garner, Julian Grigg, Catherine M. McGrath, J. Frederick W. Mosselmans, Elna Pidcock, Mark D. Roper, Jon M. W. Seddon, Ekk Sinn, Peter A. Tasker, Geoff Thornton, John F. Walsh and Nigel A. Young
A combination of vanadium K- and L-edge XAFS has been used to characterise a series of monomeric oxovanadium(IV), monomeric dioxovanadium(V) and dimeric oxovanadium(V) complexes with oxyoxime and oxyoximate ligands. The K- and L-edge spectra confirm the presence of VV in the dimeric species and the L-edge spectra have been used to discriminate between six-co-ordinate V–N–O–V bridged oxovanadium(V) dimers and seven-co-ordinate phenolate bridged oxovanadium(V) dimers containing η2-N–O groups.