Oxidation without organics: A tetraruthenium polyoxometalate (see picture; Ru blue, O red, Si yellow, W black) catalyzes the rapid oxidation of H2O to O2 in water at ambient temperature, and shows considerable stability under turnover conditions. The complex was characterized by several methods, including X‐ray crystallography and cyclic voltammetry.

We present joint theoretical-experimental study of the correlation effects in the electronic structure of (pyH)3[Mn4O3Cl7(OAc)3]·2MeCN molecular magnet (Mn4). Describing the many-body effects by cluster dynamical mean-field theory, we find that Mn4 is predominantly Hubbard insulator with strong electron correlations. The calculated electron gap (1.8 eV) agrees well with the results of optical conductivity measurements, while other methods, which neglect many-body effects or treat them in a simplified manner, do not provide such an agreement. Strong electron correlations in Mn4 may have important implications for possible future applications.PACS numbers: 75.50. Xx,71.15.Mb, Single molecule magnets (SMMs), made of exchangecoupled magnetic ions surrounded by large organic ligands, represent a novel interesting class of magnetic materials. They are of fundamental interest as test systems for studying magnetism at nanoscale, and interplay between the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties. SMMs demonstrate fascinating mixture of clasiscal and quantum properties: as classical superparamagnets, they possess large anisotropy and magnetic moment, but also exhibit interesting mesoscopic quantum spin effects [1,2,3]. Moreover, recent experiments on the electron transport through SMMs [4], and predicted connection between the transport and spin tunneling [5], make SMMs good candidates for interesting spintronics studies. Progress in this area -synthesis of novel SMMs with optimized properties, design and analysis of the transport experiments, possible uses in information processing -demands detailed theoretical investigations of the magnetic and electronic structure of SMMs [6,7,8,9,10]. Among other factors, the many-body correlations caused by the Coulomb repulsion between electrons, may be important. E.g., in transition metal-oxide systems [11], which share many similarities with SMMs, strong correlations may form the Mott-Hubbard insulating state [12], where the nature of the charge and spin excitations is drastically different from the predictions of standard band-insulator theory. This affects the basic properties of the system (e.g., exchange interactions), and drastically changes charge and spin transport.In this joint experimental-theoretical work, we present a detailed study of the many-body effects in electronic structure of SMMs (pyH) 3 [Mn 4 O 3 Cl 7 (OAc) 3 ]·2MeCN (denoted below as Mn 4 for brevity) [19]. We use the cluster LDA+DMFT method [13] which combines the realistic ab initio calculations based on the local density approximation (LDA), and the accurate description of the correlation effects within the cluster dynamical mean field theory (CDMFT). Using the electron gap as a most convenient benchmark, we show that the gap value (1.8 eV) calculated within LDA+CDMFT is in good agreement with the optical conductivity measurements (showing the peak corresponding to vertical transitions at ∼1.8 eV). The approaches which neglect the electron correlations (LDA), or treat these correlation in a simplifi...

Pythagorean harmony can be found in the spherical polyoxometalate clusters described here (see illustration for an example of a structure), since there are interesting relationships between the so-called magic numbers (12, 32, 42, 72, 132) relevant for spherical viruses and the number of the building blocks in the cluster. The size of these Keplerate clusters can be tailored by varying the type of connections between the pentagons by means of different spacers.