A General Access Route to High‐Nuclearity, Metal‐Functionalized Molecular Vanadium Oxides

Abstract

Molecular metal oxides are key materials in diverse fields like energy storage and conversion, molecular magnetism and as model systems for solid‐state metal oxides. To improve their performance and increase the variety of accessible motifs, new synthetic approaches are necessary. Herein, we report a universal, new precursor to access different metal‐functionalized polyoxovanadate (POV) clusters. The precursor is synthesized by a novel solid‐state thermal treatment procedure. Solution‐phase test reactions at room temperature and pressure show that reaction of the precursor with various metal nitrate salts gives access to a range of metal‐functionalized POVs. The first nitrate‐templated molecular calcium vanadate cluster is reported. We show that this precursor could open new access routes to POV components for molecular magnetism, energy technologies or catalysis.

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“…[14] Moreover, a search in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) reveals that there are not known structures of POVs with 20 V atoms. Instead, in literature, five types of octadecavanadate (V 18 ) cages with composition [V 18 O 39 ] nÀ , [34] [V 18 O 41 ] nÀ , [35] [V 18 O 42 ] nÀ , [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] [V 18 O 44 ] nÀ , [46,47] and [V 18 O 46 ] nÀ , [48] have been reported. These present various combinations of V IV and V V centres, [36] from which the value of the charge nÀ , the structural features and the magnetic, [37] catalytic, [49,50] and biological properties depend.…”