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An authoritative up-to-date summary of the chemistry and applications of polyoxometalates with emphasis on new synthetic strategies directed towards functionalized organic derivatives, self-assembly of mesoscopic composite polyoxoanions, generation of framework materials and thin oxide films, extended optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, applications in homogeneous and nanocluster-based catalysts, photocatalytic water decontamination, ribosomal crystallography, and topological aspects of large symmetrical structures.
List of contents
to Polyoxometalate Chemistry : From Topology via Self-assembly to Applications.- Synthetic Strategies.- Rational Approaches to Polyoxometalate Synthesis.- Functionalization of Polyoxometalates : Achievements and Perspectives.- From the First Sulfurated Keggin Anion to a New Class of Compounds Based on the [M2O2S2]2+ Building Block M=Mo,W.- Organometallic Oxometal Clusters.- Structures: Molecular and Electronic.- Spherical (Icosahedral) Objects in Nature and Deliberately Constructable Molecular Keplerates: Structural and Topological Aspects.- Syntheses and Crystal Structure Studies of Novel Selenium- and Tellurium-substituted Lacunary Polyoxometalates.- Vibrational Spectroscopy of Heteropoly Acids.- Bond-stretch Isomerism in Polyoxometalates?.- Quantum-chemical studies of electron transfer in transition-metal substituted polyoxometalates.- Solution Equilibria and Dynamics.- Aqueous Peroxoisopolyoxometalates.- Molybdate speciation in systems related to the bleaching of kraft pulp.- NMR Studies of Various Ligands Coordinated to Paramagnetic Polyoxometalates.- From Discrete Clusters to Networks and Materials.- Molecular Aspect of Energy Transfer from Tb3+ to Eu3+ in the Polyoxometalate Lattices: An Approach for Molecular Design of Rare-Earth Metal-Oxide Phosphors.- COnducting and Magnetic Organic / Inorganic Molecular Materials Based on Polyoxometalates.- Molecular Materials from Polyoxometalates.- Framework Materials Composed of Transition Metal Oxide Clusters.- Perspectives in the Solid State Coordination Chemistry of the Molybdenum Oxides.- Polyoxometalate Clusters in a Supramolecular SelfOrganized Environment: Steps Towards Functional Nanodevices and Thin Film Applications.- Polyoxometalate Chemistry: a Source for Unusual Spin Topologies.- Heteropolyanions: Molecular Building Blocks for Ultrathin Oxide Films.- Applications : Catalysis, Biological Systems, Environmental Studies.- Selective Oxidation of Hydrocarbons with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Iron-substituted Silicotungstates.- Aerobic Oxidations Catalyzed by Polyoxometalates.- Polyoxoanions in Catalysis: From Record Catalytic Lifetime Nanocluster Catalysis to Record Catalytic Lifetime Catechol Dioxygenase Catalysis.- Ribosomal Crystallography and Heteropolytungstates.- Photocatalytic Decontamination by Polyoxometalates.
Summary
Provides a summary of the chemistry and applications of polyoxometalates with emphasis on synthetic strategies directed towards functionalized organic derivatives, self-assembly of mesoscopic composite polyoxoanions, generation of framework materials and thin oxide films, extended optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, and more.
