IntroductionVanadyl phosphate-and zirconium phosphate-alkanol intercalates may be considered as very good starting materials for the intercalation of other polar organic molecules. [1,2] Previous X-ray diffraction studies of vanadyl phosphatealkanol intercalate [3] revealed irregularities in basal spacing increments depending on the alkyl chain length. Comparing the experimental basal spacing for VOPO 4 -ethanol d = 13.17 Å, VOPO 4 -propanol d = 14.36 Å and VOPO 4 -butanol d = 17.90 Å, one can see that one additional carbon atom causes the increment of basal spacing ∆d = 1.19 Å in the case of propanol and 3.54 Å in the case of butanol. In the present work we have used molecular mechanics simuAbstract Molecular mechanics simulations supported by X-ray powder diffraction measurements have been used to investigate the structure of vanadyl phosphate intercalated with 1-alkanols C n H 2n+1 OH for n = 2, 3, 4. Modeling revealed the specific features and differences in arrangement of alkanol molecules with different chain length, depending on the relation between the parameters of active sites network and size of guest molecules. This result enabled us to explain the irregularities in dependence of basal spacing on the chain length. The comparison of experimental d exp and calculated d calc values of basal spacing showed the good agreement of modeling with x-ray powder diffraction. While we obtained d calc (Univ) = 13.05 Å for vanadyl phosphate-ethanol using the Universal force field (d exp =13.17 Å), for vanadyl phosphate-propanol and vanadyl phosphate-butanol better agreement with experiment was obtained using the Tripos force field. In the case of vanadyl phosphate-propanol the calculated basal spacing d calc (Tripos) = 14.49 Å, compared with an experimental value of d exp =14.36 Å. For vanadyl phosphate-butanol d calc (Tripos) = 17.71 Å and d exp =17.90 Å.