Two
particular fumaric acid bridging lanthanide-encapsulated selenotungstates
[H2N(CH3)2]16Na8[Ln3(H2O)7]2 [W4O8(C4H2O4) (C4H3O4)]2[SeW6O25]2[B-α-SeW9O33]4·46H2O [Ln = Ce3+ (1), La3+ (2)] were acquired by the deliberately designed
step-by-step synthetic strategy, which are composed of four trilacunary
Keggin [B-α-SeW9O33]8– and two original [SeW6O25]10– building units together with one fumaric acid bridging heterometallic
[Ln3(H2O)7]2[W4O8(C4H2O4) (C4H3O4)]2
28+ entity. Particularly,
this heterometallic cluster contains four fumaric acid ligands, which
play two different roles: one works as the pendant decorating the
cluster and the other acts as the linker connecting the whole structure.
In addition, the 1@DDA hybrid material was produced through
the cation exchange of 1 and dimethyl distearylammonium
chloride (DDA·Cl) and its beehive-shaped film of 1@DDA was prepared by the breath figure method, which can be further used
to establish an electrochemical biosensor for detecting a kind of
mycotoxin–ochratoxin A (OX-A). The 1@DDA beehive-shaped
film-based electrochemical biosensor exhibits good reproducibility
and specific sensing toward OX-A with a low detection limit of 29.26
pM. These results highlight the huge feasibility of long-chain flexible
ligands in building lanthanide-encapsulated selenotungstates with
structural complexity and further demonstrate great electrochemical
application potentiality of polyoxometalate-involved materials in
bioanalysis, tumor diagnosis, and iatrology.