(1) Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Utrecht University, Debye Institute, PO Box 80.083, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract:
ESR and magnetisation experiments have identified a new type of antiferromagnetic pairing of vanadyl groups in the butane oxidation catalyst vanadylpyrophosphate. This pairing is an order of magnitude weaker than the coupling predominantly found in crystalline (VO)2P2O7.