IR matrix isolation study of alkali-metal metavanadate monomers and dimers

Abstract

In this paper are reported the results of matrix-isolation IR studies of lithium, sodium, potassium, and rubidium metavanadates. A critical analysis of these results in comparison with those of previous studies on the cesium metavanadate allows one to assume the existence of stable gaseous XVO 3 monomer and dimer species, both of importance in the equilibrium vapors, as definitely proved for X=K, Rb, and Cs, while reasonably inferred for X=Li and Na