Pure Appl. Chem., 2005, Vol. 77, No. 9, pp. 1497-1527
doi:10.1351/pac200577091497
Fifteen years of dancing with vanadium*
Debbie C. Crans
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Abstract:
The advances in vanadium chemistry over the past 15 years are discussed in the areas of solution chemistry, coordination chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry and will be presented using the perspectives of "What exists in solution?", "What is its structure?", "How does it react?", and "What are its biological effects?". Current and future challenges will be described briefly.
Keywords: biological effects; insulin-enhancing; kinetics; reactivity; solution chemistry; speciation; spectroscopy; structure; Vanadium; X-ray structure.
*Paper based on the first Vanadis Award lecture presented at the 4th International Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, 3-5 September 2004, Szeged, Hungary. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1497-1640.