A new organic donor 3-amino-6-dimethylamino-2methyl-phenazine was introduced to charge-transfer complex with polyoxometalate. The complex [C 15 H 17 N 4 ] 4 [Mo 8 O 26 ] (1) was synthesized by hydrothermal reaction of neutral red chloride (3-amino-6-dimethylamino-2-methyl-phenazine hydrochloride) and (NH 4 ) 6 -Polyoxometalates (POMs) have been proved to be an interesting subject in chemistry owing to their structural variation and wide applications in catalysis, magnetism, photochemistry, analysis chemistry, medicine, material chemistry and nanotechnology [1, 2]. As electron-accepting moieties in charge-transfer salts, POMs have a lot of advantages such as the good solubility in both aqueous and nonaqueous solvents; the variety ofshapes, sizes and charges which can induce new organic packings and new band structure; the ability to be reduced by one or several electrons that enable coexistence of delocalized electrons in the organic networks and the inorganic clusters; the possibility of containing magnetic and electronic properties by introducing magnetically active metal ions to POMs [2]. Since French researcher Ouahab and his coworkers synthesized first charge-transfer salts based on polyoxometalates, (TTF) 6 [PW 12 O 40 ]·(Et 4 N) (TTF ϭ tetrathiafulvene) [3], the research about this type of complexes have been a focus in molecular-based materials due to their abundant physical properties and potential applications. Organic donors used in these complexes include substituted amides [4], aromatic amines [5] and electron-rich substrates such as TTFs [2], decamethylferrocenes [2] and so on. The planar conjugated π structures of these donors stabilize the positive charge and reduced energy band gap. Many organic dyes have large planar conjugated π systems but few charge-transfer complexes using dyes as donors have been reported. Considering the potential electric and optic properties of the complexes based on dyes, our group tried to introduce different organic dyes to complexes with polyoxometalates. We have synthesized and reported a charge-transfer complex of dye cations of tri-(p-aminophenyl)carbonium and Keggin type polyoxoanions, [(C 19 H 18 N 3 ) 2 H][PMo 12 O 40 ] [6]. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of a new charge-transfer complex of monoprotonated 3-amino-6-dimethylamino-2-methylphenazine and β-[Mo 8 O 26 ] 4Ϫ , [C 15 H 17 N 4 ] 4 [Mo 8 O 26 ].
Results and DiscussionThe single crystal diffraction shows the complex 1 consists of β-[Mo 8 O 26 ] 4Ϫ anions and two types of crystallographically indepen-645 [Mo 7 O 24 ] · 4H 2 O and was characterized by EPR, element analysis and single crystal x-ray diffraction.