“…These phases, which are metastable with respect to the rutile-structure phase, are prepared by hydrolysis of K2Ti409 (Marchand, Brohan & Tournoux, 1980) and by controlled reduction of V205 (Theobald, Cabala & Bernard, 1976). The powder X-ray study, reported by Theobald et al (1976) for the case of VO2 (B), yields a structure based on a unit of four corner-shared VO6 octahedra arranged as in the ReO3 structure. Different units are connected by edge sharing as illustrated in Fig.…”