Bringing together the research on the catalytic uses of vanadium into one resource, this book is a useful reference for industrial and academic chemists alike.

Introduction; Amavadin and related complexes as oxidation catalysts (alkane carboxylation, electrocatalytic oxidation of thiols, oxidation of water); Activating peroxides by vanadium(V) compounds; The vanadate/pyrazinecarboxylic acid/hydrogen peroxide reagent and similar systems for efficient oxidations with peroxides; Peroxido-vanadium complexes as sustainable catalysts in oxidations, halogenations and other organic transformations; Vanadium-scorpionate catalyzed oxidations; Vanadium-carbohydrazones catalyzed oxidations; Polyoxidovanadate catalysts in nonaqeuous solution; Polyoxidometalates and soft-oxidometalates in catalysis; Use of vanadium catalysts in epoxidation and sulfoxidation reactions with  Green Chemistry criteria; Vanadium-based catalysts: heterogeneous molecular complexes, supramolecular compounds, and their applications; Carbon-supported vanadium catalysis; Structure, characterization and applications of VOx supported materials; Vanadium oxides in photocatalysis, including bare oxides and VOx based organic-inorganic nanocomposites; Theoretical mechanistic analysis on vanadium oxidation catalysis; Vanadium catalyzed olefin oligomerization, polymerization and copolymerization; Vanadium catalyzed olefin metathesis and related chemistry; Vanadium catalyzed enantioselective C-C bond forming reactions; Vanadium-induced oxidative and reductive coupling; Vanadium-catalyzed transformations of selected functional groups; Catalysis exerted by cells on polyoxidometalate anions; Dioxygen activation by biomimetic vanadium complexes; Vanadium in catalytically proceeding natural processes; Vanadium chloroperoxidases as versatile biocatalysts; Vanadium catalysis relevant to nitrogenase