An unprecedented silver-decavanadate dimer investigated using ion-mobility mass spectrometry

Abstract

A silver(I)-linked decavanadate system has been synthesised, and characterised in both the solid-state and solution showing that two cluster units are held in a specific, dimeric arrangement wholly supported by cooperative hydrogen bonds, and ion-mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) was used to analyse the system yielding significant information on the secondary building units and aggregation behaviour supported by hydrogen bonding.