DOI: 10.1002/chem.201501049
Communication
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Polyoxometalates
Controlled Reactivity Tuning of Metal-Functionalized Vanadium
Oxide Clusters
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Katharina Kastner, Johannes Forster, Hiromichi Ida, Graham N. Newton, Hiroki Oshio,
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and Carsten Streb*
Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Saalfrank on occasion of his 75th birthday
control, however, is required for the targeted synthesis of ma-
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terials with specific structure and chemical reactivity.
Abstract: Controlling the assembly and functionalization
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One notable exception in POM chemistry where controlled
functionalization is possible are lacunary clusters: these species
are obtained by controlled hydrolysis of the parent anion, for
of molecular metal oxides [M O ] (M=Mo, W, V) allows
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the targeted design of functional molecular materials.
While general methods exist that enable the predeter-
mined functionalization of tungstates and molybdates, no
such routes are available for molecular vanadium oxides.
Controlled design of polyoxovanadates, however, would
provide highly active materials for energy conversion,
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example, the Keggin anion [SiW O ] or the Dawson anion
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[
P W O ] . In the case of the Keggin anion, lacunary clusters
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such as the monovacant [SiW O ]
or the divacant
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[2c]
[
SiW O ] are formed, which feature one or several vacant
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coordination sites. These binding sites can be functionalized
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photo-) catalysis, molecular magnetism, and materials sci-
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with metal cations, giving species such as [M(H O)SiW O ]
ence. To this end, a new approach has been developed
that allows the reactivity tuning of vanadium oxide clus-
ters by selective metal functionalization. Organic, hydro-
gen-bonding cations, for example, dimethylammonium
are used as molecular placeholders to block metal binding
sites within vanadate cluster shells. Stepwise replacement
of the placeholder cations with reactive metal cations
gives mono- and difunctionalized clusters. Initial reactivity
studies illustrate the tunability of the magnetic, redox,
and catalytic activity.
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[2c,5]
and [{M(H O)} SiW O ] (M: metal cation).
Using this ap-
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proach, functional molecular materials for energy conversion,
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(
photo-)catalysis,
molecular magnetism,
supramolecular
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chemistry and materials science
have been developed.
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However, to-date, this approach is limited to tungstate-
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and molybdate-based lacunary clusters, and no analogous
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strategy exists in vanadium oxide chemistry. Controlled and
predictable access to metal-functionalized vanadates, however,
would allow researchers to exploit their potential as tunable,
highly reactive molecular materials in solar energy conver-
[12d,f,g]
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sion,
magnetism
redox catalysis,
molecular electronics,
and
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as well as metal oxide nanostructures.
In supramolecular chemistry, the predictable synthesis of
a target compound is difficult to achieve because complex
self-assembly mechanisms often do not allow a high degree of
We have recently taken the first steps towards controlled
metal functionalization in vanadium oxide cluster chemistry:
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chloride-templated
dodecavanadate
cluster,
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reaction control. In inorganic supramolecular chemistry, this
is particularly obvious for molecular metal oxides, or polyoxo-
metalates (POMs). POMs are anionic transition metal oxo clus-
ters formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of oxometalate
(DMA) [V O Cl]
(={V }; DMA=dimethylammonium) was
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developed that is capable of selective metal-ion binding. {V }
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features two hexagonal metal binding sites that are blocked
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by hydrogen-bonded DMA placeholder cations (Figure 1).
Reaction of {V } with transition metals allows the selective re-
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precursors and a variation of the reaction conditions gives
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access to a vast number of different cluster architectures.
placement of one DMA cation, giving the mono-functionalized
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However, this synthetic approach inherently lacks the precise
control required for predetermined cluster assembly, and often
the resulting architectures cannot be predicted. This level of
cluster anions [M(L)V O Cl] (={MV }, M=Fe , Co , Cu , and
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Zn ; L=ligand, for example, MeCN, Cl ), see Figure 1. Density-
functional theory calculations suggested that the second DMA
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cation can in principle be replaced also.
Here, we show how stepwise metal incorporation into {V }
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a] K. Kastner, J. Forster, Prof. Dr. C. Streb
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Ulm University
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm (Germany)
E-mail: carsten.streb@uni-ulm.de
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can be used to control cluster reactivity; examples in redox,
magnetic, and catalytic activity are given. To this end, the
DMA-placeholder-blocked {V } was allowed to react with
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[
b] H. Ida, Dr. G. N. Newton, Prof. Dr. H. Oshio
MnCl ·4H O in acetonitrile solution at room temperature. Crys-
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Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8571 (Japan)
tallization of the mother liquor gave green block crystals, and
single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD, see the Supporting In-
formation) confirmed the formation of the mono-manganese-
functionalized species (nBu N) (DMA)[(MnCl)V O Cl]·EtOAc
Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201501049 (synthetic, analytical, crystallo-
graphic, spectroscopic, magnetometric and catalytic details).
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