The syntheses of five mixed ligand vanadium(III)
phos
phate/
phos
phonate com
plexes are described: dinuclear
I,[LVCl{
-(PhO)
2PO
2}]
2;
II,[LVCl{
-Ph
2PO
2}]
2; and
III,[LVCl{
-PhP(H)O
2}]
2;along with mononuclear
IV,[LV{(PhO)
2POS}
2DMF]; and
V,[LV{(PhO)
2PO
2}]
2·H
2Owhere L = hydrotris(
pyrazolyl)borate. X-raycrystalstructure analysis of
I,
II,
IV, and
V gave the following
parameters:
I,C
12H
40B
2Cl
2N
12O
8P
2V
2,
P,
a = 9.949(4)Å,
b = 11.732(4) Å,
c = 12.729(3) Å,
pha.gif" BORDER=0> = 110.37(1)
,
= 106.78(1)
,
=104.36(1)
,
Z = 1,
V = 1
228.8(7)Å
3;
II,C
46H
98B
2Cl
10N
12O
4P
2V
2,
P,
a = 11.801(2) Å,
b= 12.086(1) Å,
c = 12.955(2) Å,
pha.gif" BORDER=0> =81.99(1)
,
= 65.51(1)
,
= 62.60(1)
,
Z = 1,
V = 1491.1(5) Å
3;
IV,C
36H
37BN
7O
7P
2S
2V,
P,
a = 11.003(2) Å,
b=11.816(2) Å,
c = 17.167(5) Å,
pha.gif" BORDER=0> =98.68(2)
,
= 101.81(2)
,
= 102.59(2)
,
Z = 2,
V = 2087.0(6) Å
3;
V,C
69.5H
65B
2N
15O
8P
4V
2,
C2/
c,
a = 12.360(2) Å,
b = 26.362(4) Å,
c = 23.254(2) Å,
= 91.24(8)
,
Z = 4,
V=7575(2) Å
3. Magnetic measurements indicatelittle or no interaction between the V(III) ions in
II but amodestantiferromagnetic cou
pling in
I. These com
plexes shouldbe good models for the
possible modes of bondingbetween V(III) and biological
phos
phates such as DNA as well as
provideinsight into one of the common structuralmotifs
present in vanadium(III)
phos
phate solid statematerials.