Restraining Symmetry in the Formation of Small Polyoxomolybdates: Building Blocks of Unprecedented Topology Resulting From “Shrink-Wrapping” [H2Mo16O52]10−-Type Clusters

✍ Scribed by De-Liang Long; Paul Kögerler; Louis J. Farrugia; Leroy Cronin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 256 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200351615

✦ Synopsis

Trapped polyoxometalate clusters can be isolated in a novel and simple synthetic approach which "shrink-wraps" unstable, unsymmetrical polyoxometalate clusters with large organic cations. This prevents their rearrangement and aggregation to more symmetrical, well known structures. Initial results and reactivities of clusters trapped in this way are presented by L. Cronin et al. on the following pages.