A New Route to Organic Intercalates Consisting of Vanadium Pentoxide and Pyridines: (4-H2N-C5H5NH)V2O5

Light at the end of the tunnel! Intercalates of pyridine and layered inorganic compounds have intrigued chemists for at least two decades, but their structure determination has always been difficult owing to a lack of suitable single crystals. The intercalate (4-H₂N-C₅H₅NH)V₂O₅ has now been characterized by X-ray crystal structure analysis, and its electronic structure and magnetic properties have been studied in detail.