Introducing Chirality into Hybrid Clusters from an Achiral Ligand: Synthesis and Characterization of Polyoxomolybdates Containing a Benzylarsonate Group

Electronic Structure and Photoactivity of Organoarsenic Hybrid Polyoxometalates

Organofunctionalization of polyoxometalates (POMs) allows the preparation of hybrid molecular systems with tunable electronic properties. Currently, there are only a handful of approaches that allow for the fine-tuning of POM frontier molecular orbitals in a predictable manner. Herein, we demonstrate a new functionalization method for the Wells-Dawson polyoxotungstate [P₂W₁₈O₆₂]^6- using arylarsonic acids which enables modulation of the redox and photochemical properties. Arylarsonic groups facilitate orbital mixing between the organic and inorganic moieties, and the nature of the organic substituents significantly impacts the redox potentials of the POM core. The photochemical response of the hybrid POMs correlates with their computed and experimentally estimated lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies, and the arylarsonic hybrids are found to exhibit increased visible light photosensitivity comparable with that of arylphosphonic analogues. Arylarsonic hybridization offers a route to stable and tunable organic-inorganic hybrid systems for a range of redox and photochemical applications.

Multi-stimuli-responsive induced chirality of polyoxometalates in natural polysaccharide hydrogels

Multi-stimuli-responsive induced circular dichroism of polyoxometalates was realized in natural polysaccharide hydrogels. The extrinsic chiral factors rather than the intrinsic chirality of the polyoxometalates were dominant in κ-carrageenan hydrogel hybrids.

Three new Strandberg-type phenylphosphomolybdate supports for immobilizing horseradish peroxidase and their catalytic oxidation performances

Three new Strandberg-type polyoxometalate TM-(PhP)2Mo5 supports for immobilizing HRP showed high adsorption capacity and good catalytic oxidation activity.