Bis[tris(2,2 '-bipyridyl-kappa N-2,N ')iron(II)] cyclo-tetravanadate decahydrate

The hydrothermal reactions of metavanadate and divalent iron salts in the presence of nitrogen-donor chelating ligands yield the complex [Fe(C10H8N2)(3)](2)[V4O12].10H(2)O, which consists of one centrosymmetric eight-membered ring [V4O12](4-) anion cluster, formed by four VO4 tetrahedra sharing vertices, two discrete octahedral [Fe(C10H8N2)(3)](2+) cations, formed by three 2,2'-bipyridyl ligands coordinated to Fe-II, and ten water molecules of solvation. The anion and coordination cations are isolated and form anion and cation layers, respectively. In the anion layers, these anions and water molecules of solvation are linked to each other, in a two-dimensional motif, through hydrogen-bonding interactions.

Hydrothermal synthesis and structural characterization of a mixed-valence molybdenum (IV,VI) arsenate (III): Ni(H2NCH2CH2NH2)(3)[((MoO6)-O-IV)(Mo6O18)-O-VI((As3O3)-O-III)(2)]H2O

A novel mixed-valence molybdenum(IV, VI) arsenate(III), Ni(H2NCH2CH2NH2)(3)[((MoO6)-O-IV)(Mo6O18)-O-VI((As3O3)-O-III)(2)]H2O, hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis. The polyanion cage derives from the Anderson structure, in which the central octahedron was filled up by molybdenum(IV) and it was capped on both sides by a novel As3O63- cyclo-triarsenate(III). The title compound had a high catalytic activity for the oxidation of benzaldehyde to benzoic acid using H2O2 as oxidant in a liquid-solid biphase system. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

[Ni(C10H8N2)(3)](2)[V4O12].11H(2)O

The crystal structure of the title compound, bis[tris(2,2'-bipyridyl-N,N')nickel(II)] cyclo-tetravanadate undecahydrate, contains a centrosymmetric [V4O12](4-) anion, which has an eight-membered ring structure formed by four VO4 tetrahedra sharing vertices, and two complex cations containing octahedrally-coordinated Ni-II ions. The anion and coordinated Ni-II ions are isolated and make up anion and cation layers, respectively. The Ni-N distances range from 2.077(3) to 2.112(2)Angstrom and the V-O distances range from 1.621(2) to 1.803(2)Angstrom.