Yi Zhu, Panchao Yin, Fengping Xiao
Oct 29, 2013
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
Abstract
A bottom-up approach to obtain nanoclusters and large, uniform vesicle-like structures containing organic functionalized hexamolybdates in solution state were developed. Hexamolybdate functionalized carboxylic acid coordinated with two copper ions to form paddle-wheel tetrapolyoxometalate clusters with the features of macro-ions, which can spontaneously assemble into large, stable blackberry-type structures in suitable solvents, completing a hierarchical organization from small POM molecules to nanoscale complexes and then to supramolecular structures.