The chemistry of vanadium has expanded considerably in the last decade. The element is a main consitutent and focus of research on orally administered anti-diabetes therapies, catalysts for bulk preparation of organic feedstock, and primary metallic component of certain haloperoxidases and tunicate blood cells. No less important is vanadium's function in human, animal and plant nutrition, as aw contaminant of coal and petroleum, and as an often toxic pollutant in air, soil and water. This book describes several recent developments in experimental techniques for studying vanadium, new vanadium compounds and new advances in fundamental inorganic, organic and biochemical studies of vanadium, and includes applications to the enzymology, toxicology and anitcarcinogenic and insulin-enhancing abilities of vanadium compounds.
"Jo~ão Costa Pessoa, Kenneth Kustin and Debbie C. Crans: Preface: Recent Advances in Vanadium Science VANADIUM CATALYSIS OF SYNTHESIS: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND POLYMERS 1: Toshikazu Hirao: Synthetic Transformations via Vanadium-Induced Redox Reactions 2: Valeria Conte, Barbara Floris, and Adriano Silvagni: Vanadium Catalyzed Oxidation in Ionic Liquids 3: Jens Hartung, Arne Ludwig, Mario Demary, and Georg Stapf: The Synthesis of Functionalized Tetrahydrofurans via Vanadium(V)-Catalyzed Oxidation of Alkenols 4: Armando J.L. Pombeiro: Vanadium Catalyzed Alkane Functionalization: Reactions under Mild Conditions 5: Pingsong Wu, Gabriella Santoni, Cornelia Wikete, Falk Olbrich, and Dieter Rehder: Biomimetic Vanadium Complexes and Oxo Transfer Catalysis 6: Esther C. E. Rosenthal, Huiling Cui, and Juliane Koch: Coordination Chemistry and Applications of Vanadium Alkoxides in Catalysis INSULIN ENHANCING AGENTS: COMPOUND DESIGN AND MECHANISM OF ACTION 7: Marvin W. Makinen, Stephanie E. Rivera, Katherine I. Zhou, and Matthew J. Brady: Enhancement of Insulin Action by Bis(acetylacetonato)oxovanadium(IV) Occurs through Uncompetitive Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-1B 8: Gail R. Willsky, Michael E. Godzalla, III, Paul J. Kostyniak, Lai-Har Chi, Rohit Gupta,Violet G. Yuen, John H. McNeill, Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir, Jason J. Smee, Luqin Yang, Aaron Lobernick, Shari Watson, and Debbie C. Crans: Comparing Administration Route in Rats with Streptozocin-Induced Diabetes and Inhibition of Myoblast Growth of Vanadium [V(III), V(IV) and V(V)] Dipicolinic Acid Complexes 9: Hiromu Sakurai: Structure?Activity Relationship and Molecular Action Mechanism in the Family of Antidiabetic Bis(picolinato)oxovanadium(IV) Complex 10: Deborah A. Roess, Steven M. L. Smith, Alvin A. Holder, Bharat Baruah, Alejandro M. Trujillo, Daniel Gilsdorf, Michelle L. Stahla, and Debbie C. Crans: Do Vanadium Compounds Drive Reorganization of the Plasma Membrane and Activation of Insulin Receptors with Lipid Rafts? HALOPEROXIDASES: MECHANISM AND MODEL STUDIES 11: Jennifer Littlechild, Esther Garcia-Rodriguez, Elizabeth Coupe, Aaron Watts and Mikail Isupov: Structural Studies of Vanadium Haloperoxidases - Insight into Halide Specificity, Stability and Enzyme Mechanism 12: Curtis J. Schneider, Giuseppe Zampella, Luca DeGioa, and Vincent L. Pecoraro: Understanding the Mechanism of Vanadium Dependent Haloperoxidases and Related Biomimetic Catalysis 13: Winfried Plass, Masroor Bangesh, Simona Nica, and Axel Buchholz: Model Studies of Vanadium Dependent Haloperoxidation: Structural and Functional Lessons 14: Tatyana Polenova, Neela Pooransingh-Margolis, Dieter Rehder, Rokus Renirie, Ron Wever: V Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Vanadium Haloperoxidases and Bioinorganic Haloperoxidase Mimics ENZYMOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY AND TRANSPORT 15: Susana B. Etcheverry and Daniel A. Barrio: Vanadium and Bone: Relevance of Vanadium Compounds in Bone Cells 16: Mitchell D. Cohen: Toxicity of Vanadium Compounds: Pulmonary and Immune System Targets 17: Andrew J. Ghio and James M. Samet: Biological Effects of Vanadium in the Lung 18: Manuel Aureliano, Sandra S. Soares, Teresa Tiago, Susana Ramos and Carlos Gutiérrez-Merino: Biological Effects of Decavanadate: Muscle Contraction, in vivo Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Toxicity 19: Hitoshi Michibata, Masafumi Yoshinaga, Masao Yoshihara, Norifumi Kawakami, Nobuo Yamaguchi and Tatsuya Ueki: Genes and Proteins Involved in Vanadium Accumulation by Ascidians 20: Patrick Frank, Elaine J. Carlson, Robert M. K. Carlson, Britt Hedman and Keith O. Hodgson: Towards the Biological Reduction Mechanism of Vanadyl Ion in the Blood Cells of Vanadium-Sequestering Tunicates 21: Elizabeth E. Hamilton, Jessica M. Fautch, Sarah M. Gentry, and Jonathan J. Wilker: Chemical and Biochemical Insights on Preventing Cancer with Vanadium and Selenium COORDINATION CHEMISTRY: SPECIATION AND STRUCTURE 22: Michael Bühl: Speciation of Peroxovanadium(V) Complexes Studied by First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations and 51V NMR Chemical Shift Computations 23: Tam'ás Kiss, Tam'ás Jakusch, Dominik Hollender, and &D'Ágnes D""örnyei: Biospeciation of Insulin-Mimetic VO(IV) Complexes 24: Jo~ão Costa Pessoa, I. Cavaco, I. Correia, I. Tomaz, P. Ad~ão, I. Vale, V. Ribeiro, M.M.C.A. Castro, C.C.F.G. Geraldes: Vanadium Schiff Base Complexes: Chemistry, Properties and Concerns about Possible Therapeutic Applications 25: Chryssoula Drouza and Anastasios D. Keramidas: Charge Distribution in Vanadium p-(Hydro/Semi)Quinonate Complexes 26: Alistair J. Fielding, Dong Bin Back, Michael Engler, Bharat Baruah, Debbie C. Crans, Gareth R. Eaton, and Sandra S. Eaton: Electron Spin Lattice Relaxation of V(IV) Complexes in Glassy Solutions between 15 and 70 K 27: Athanasios Salifoglou: Synthetic and Structural Studies of Aqueous Vanadium(IV,V) Hydroxycarboxylate Complexes NEW MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 28: Wayne Ouellette and Jon Zubieta: Structural Determinants in the Oxovanadium Diphosphonate System 29: Yoshihito Hayashi, Takayuki Shinguchi, Taisei Kurata and Kiyoshi Isobe: Stepwise Synthesis of Disk and Ball Shaped Polyoxovanadates: All-Inorganic Coordination Chemistry of Polyoxovanadates 30: Kan Kanamori and Yuya Shirosaka: A Vanadium-Based Homogeneous Chemical Oscillator"
