In this Dalton Transactions Hot article, Yongge Wei, Yuan Wang and colleagues from Peking University and Tsinghua University make three rigid-rod conjugated organic-hexamolybdate hybrids, a type of organic-polyoxometalate or Lindqvist ion.
Polyoxometalates have potential for use in medicine for anti-tumour and anti-viral applications, and their unusual properties make them useful in catalysis and potentially in the electonics industry.
In this work the organic-polyoxometalates have different amino groups at the terminus, which allows the fabrication of more complicated polyoxometalate (POM) hybrid materials. The amino groups can have different rod lengths and substituents allowing tuning of the materials properties.
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Monosubstituted arylimido hexamolybdates containing pendant amino groups: synthesis and structural characterization
Yi Zhu, Zicheng Xiao, Longsheng Wang, Panchao Yin, Jian Hao, Yongge Wei and Yuan Wang
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10168D
