1. Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Polyoxoniobates: Polyoxoniobate Metal Complex Cage and Cage Framework.
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Zhu, Zeng‐Kui, Lin, Ya‐Yun, Yu, Hao, Li, Xin‐Xiong, and Zheng, Shou‐Tian
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CLATHRATE compounds ,METAL complexes ,ADSORPTION capacity ,METAL ions ,WATER ,HYDROGEN evolution reactions - Abstract
The combination of polyoxoniobates (PONbs) with 3d metal ions, azoles, and organoamines is a general synthetic procedure for making unprecedented PONb metal complex cage materials, including discrete molecular cages and extended cage frameworks. By this method, the first two PONb metal complex cages K4@{[Cu29(OH)7(H2O)2(en)8(trz)21][Nb24O67(OH)2(H2O)3]4} and [Cu(en)2]@{[Cu2(en)2(trz)2]6(Nb68O188)} have been made. The former exhibits a huge tetrahedral cage with more than 120 metal centers, which is the largest inorganic–organic hybrid PONb known to date. The later shows a large cubic cage, which can act as building blocks for cage‐based extended assembly to form a 3D cage framework {[Cu(en)2]@{[Cu2(trz)2(en)2]6[H10Nb68O188]}}. These materials exhibit visible‐light‐driven photocatalytic H2 evolution activity and high vapor adsorption capacity. The results hold promise for developing both novel cage materials and largely unexplored inorganic–organic hybrid PONb chemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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