"Bottom-up" meets "top-down" assembly in nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters: self-assembly of [P4W52O178](24-) and disassembly to [P3W39O134](19-)

Chullikkattil P Pradeep; De-Liang Long; Carsten Streb; Leroy Cronin

doi:10.1021/ja806596j

"Bottom-up" meets "top-down" assembly in nanoscale polyoxometalate clusters: self-assembly of [P4W52O178](24-) and disassembly to [P3W39O134](19-)

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Nov 12;130(45):14946-7. doi: 10.1021/ja806596j. Epub 2008 Oct 21.

Authors

Chullikkattil P Pradeep¹, De-Liang Long, Carsten Streb, Leroy Cronin

Affiliation

¹ WestCHEM, Department of Chemistry, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.

PMID: 18937461
DOI: 10.1021/ja806596j

Abstract

The pH-controlled assembly/disassembly of a nanoscale {P4W52O178}24- cluster at pH 2 to a {P4W44O152}20- cluster at pH 3-5 via a {P3W39O134}19- cluster species at pH 2-3 to finally give {P2W19O69(OH2)}14- at pH 6 is reported. This process can be traced in the solid state crystallographically and in solution using dynamic light scattering studies.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anions / chemistry
Crystallography, X-Ray
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Models, Molecular
Nanostructures / chemistry*
Phosphorus Compounds / chemical synthesis
Phosphorus Compounds / chemistry*
Phosphotungstic Acid / chemical synthesis
Phosphotungstic Acid / chemistry
Tungsten Compounds / chemical synthesis
Tungsten Compounds / chemistry*

Substances

Anions
Phosphorus Compounds
Tungsten Compounds
polyoxometalate I
Phosphotungstic Acid
tungstate