Synthesis and polypyrrole-loading study of antifungal medicine fluconazole functionalized Keggin polyoxotungstates.

To rich the coordination polymer and polyoxometalate (POM) chemistry, two new hybrid compounds based on Keggin POMs with antifungal medicine fluconazole (Hfkz = [1-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-1,1-bis [(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-methyl]methanol]), [Ag4(Hfkz)2][PW12O40] (AgFkzPW12) and [Ag4(Hfkz)2][SiW12O40] (AgFkzSiW12), have been successfully synthesized and structurally characterized. Moreover, to improve the photogenerated electron-hole pair separation properties, the surface of hybrid compounds was loaded by polypyrrole (PPy) through a chemical oxidation polymerization processin situfabricating hybrid nanocomposites AgFkzPW12@PPy and AgFkzSiW12@PPy. As a result, the Hfkz molecules were successfully grafted onto the surface of the Keggin polyoxoanions, and their nanocomposites exhibit better photocatalytic activity than the respective matrix compounds under the irradiation of visible light. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]