The Schiff bases H 2 fsal-ea (I), H 2 fsal-pa (II) and H 2 fsal-amp (III), derived from 3-formylsalicylic acid and 2-aminoethanol, 3-aminopropanol and 2-amino-2-methylpropanol, respectively, have been connected, by means of covalent bonds, to chloromethylated polystyrene cross-linked with 5 % divinylbenzene. On treatment with [VO(acac) 2 ] in dimethylformamide (DMF), these polymer-anchored ligands PS-H 2 fsal-ea (IV), PS-H 2 fsal-pa (V) and PS-H 2 fsal-amp (VI) gave the ox- 6), respectively. The corresponding neat complexes [VO(fsalea)] 2 (1), [VO(fsal-pa)] 2 (2) and [VO(fsal-amp)] 2 (3) have also been similarly prepared. These complexes all exhibit a medium intensity band between 964 and 993 cm -1 in their IR spectra resulting from the V=O stretch. The EPR spectra of the polymer-anchored complexes are characteristics of monomeric V IV centres with a simple S = ½ electronic spin and
idovanadium(IV) complexes, PS-[VO(fsal-ea)·DMF] (4), PS-[VO(fsal-pa)·DMF] (5) and PS-[VO(fsal-amp)·DMF] (