An Unusual Polyoxomolybdate: Giant Wheels Linked to Chains

Achim Müller, Erich Krickemeyer, Hartmut Bögge, Marc Schmidtmann, Frank Peters, Carsten Menke, Jochen Meyer

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1997 · 82 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

Rings containing 144 Mo atoms are linked by Mo-O-Mo bridges (depicted on the right) to form chains in the polyoxometalate presented here. The blue mixed-valent compound is formed by the reduction with iron powder of an acidified solution of polymolybdate in the presence of Na+ ions.

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