Silica-supported oxovanadium groups were reacted in a gas-solid reaction with aniline at 175
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C. The reaction was clean as monitored in situ by UV-vis spectroscopy and resulted in the elimination of water as the principal product of the reaction and the disappearance of the terminal V=O stretch in the Raman spectrum.
15N MAS solid-state NMR spectroscopy showed only a single nitrogen-containing species on the surface. Proton-dephased
15N NMR showed only weak attenuation of its intensity, indicating that there are no protons directly bonded to the nitrogen. The formation of a vanadium-imido covalent bond was characterized by
51V/
15N rotational echo double resonance NMR spectroscopy where the quadrupolar
51V nucleus was monitored and the spin-
1/
2 15N nucleus was dephased.