Introduction to Polyoxometalate Chemistry : From Topology via Self-assembly to Applications
Introduction to Polyoxometalate Chemistry : From Topology via Self-assembly to Applications
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10.1007/0-306-47625-8_1
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2001
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M. T. Pope;A. Müller
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作者:
M. T. Pope;A. Müller
The high abundance of oxygen (55 atom%) in the Earth’s Crust can only be partly attributable to the oceans, the silicate-based rocks, and clays. Even when and are excluded from the accounting, oxygen is still dominant at 47 atom%. Clearly, the chemistry of combined oxygen is an important component of our environment. The bulk of this chemistry is either aqueous solution chemistry of oxoanions of the nonmetals, or the solid-state and surface chemistry of insoluble metal oxides. However, although it is only a very small fraction of the natural environment, there exists a third aspect of oxygen chemistry, that of the polyoxometalates, which spans both solution and “metal oxide” realms. As amply demonstrated by the contributions to the present book, this chemistry offers opportunities, insights, properties, and applications that cannot be matched by any other single group of compounds.Polyoxometalates are the polyoxoanions of the early transition elements, especially vanadium, molybdenum, and tungsten. Although they have been investigated since the last third of the 19th century, it is only within the last four or five decades that modern experimental techniques have begun to reveal the range of structure and reactivity of these substances. Fundamental questions regarding the limits to composition, size and structure, metal incorporation, mechanisms of synthesis and reactivity, remain essentially unanswered at present. In spite of much research activity concerning practical applications of polyoxometalates, especially in heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, and in medicine (antiviral and antitumoral agents), it is certainly fair to say, considering the several thousand known polyoxometalates and their derivatives, that their potential in these and other areas remains poorly developed.