Experiment 3 Separation of the Beautiful Oxidation States of …
Each oxidation state of vanadium exists as an aquo complex, where H2O or OH¯ ligands fill the coordination shell of vanadium in a tetrahedral or octahedral complex. Under our experimental conditions, the species in solution are as follows: oxidation state short-hand notation complex V5+ VO 3¯ [V(OH)O3] 2-V4+ VO2+ [V(H 2O)5O] 2+ V3+ V3+ [V(H 2O)6]