Download or read book Gaseous Vanadium, Vanadium Oxide and Hydroxide Clusters written by Sandra Feyel and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work explores the reactivities of gaseous vanadium, vanadium-oxide, and oxovanadium-hydroxide clusters toward methanol and small hydrocarbons. Various means of mass-spectrometric techniques, isotopic labeling studies, infrared photodissociation spectroscopy, and complementary DFT-calculations are employed for this purpose. Additionally, the hydrogen-atom abstraction process from methane by polynuclear metal oxides is discussed. This work contributes to a better understanding of the metal-oxide cluster's catalytic activity on a molecular scale.