“…The obtained complexes show very good solubility in a broad range of organic solvents like alcohols, DMF, DMSO, chloroform, dichloromethane, and acetonitrile. It should be noted here that attempts to utilize ammonium metavanadate in methanol solution directly as a vanadium(V) precursor did not lead to the desired complexes, but instead afforded a mixture of the corresponding ammonium salt of the cis-dioxidovanadium(V) complexes [15,28] and bis(8-hydroxyquinolinato)methoxyoxidovanadium(V). The formation of an oxidovanadium(V) moiety in the synthesized mixed-ligand complexes is confirmed by their IR spectra, which reveal a strong band at 969 cm -1 for [VO-(salhyhb)(hq)] and 972 cm -1 for [VO(salhyhp)(hq)] and [VO-(salhyhh)(hq)], characteristic of the stretching vibration of the V=O moiety.…”