A redox-triggered structural rearrangement in an iodate-templated polyoxotungstate cluster cage

De‐Liang Long, Jun Yan, Andreu Ruiz de la Oliva, Christoph Busche, Haralampos N. Miras, R. John Errington, Leroy Cronin

Chemical Communications · 2013 · 15 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

The new tungstatoiodate, α-[H5W18O59(IO3)](6-), containing I(V)O3(-) within a {W18O54} metal oxide framework has been prepared and shown by X-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry to be derived from the fully oxidised [H3W18O56(IO6)](6-) by two-electron reduction accompanied by a redox-triggered structural rearrangement where three I-O covalent bonds are broken.

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