Organovanadium chemistry

[1] Organovanadium compounds find only minor use as reagents in organic synthesis but are significant for polymer chemistry as catalysts.

Oxo derivatives are relatively common, unlike the organic complexes of neighboring elements.

[5] Vanadocene reacts with high pressures of carbon monoxide to give CpV(CO)4.

[8] However organovanadium species are clearly implicated as catalysts for the production of butadiene-based rubbers.

These catalysts are generated in situ by treating soluble coordination complexes such as vanadium(III) acetylacetonate with organoaluminium activators.