Our new paper is released at Angewandte Chemie

02 August, 2018

Lewis Acid Guests in a {P8W48} Archetypal Polyoxotungstate Host: Enhanced Proton Conductivity via Metal‐Oxo Cluster within Cluster Assemblies


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Bibliography:
Angewandte Chemie International Edition​ (2018), 57, 1-6.​

Authors:
Yang, Peng; Alsufyani, Maryam; Emwas, Abdul‐Hamid; Chen, Chaoqin; Khasha, Niveen M.

Keywords:
cluster within cluster, inorganic hosts, Lewis acids, polyoxometalates, proton conductivity.

Year:
2018

Abstract:
​Complexes made by hosts that completely surround their guests provide a means to stabilize reactive chemical intermediates, transfer biologically active cargo to a diseased cell, and construct molecular‐scale devices. By the virtue of inorganic host–guest self‐assembly, nucleation processes in the cavity of a {P8W48}‐archetype phosphotungstate has afforded a nanoscale 16‐AlIII‐32‐oxo cluster and its GaIII analogue that contain the largest number of AlIII/GaIII ions yet found in polyoxometalate (POM) chemistry. Interestingly, the rich Lewis acid AlIII centers within the Lewis base POM support shows an exceptional proton conductivity of 4.5×10−2 S cm−1 (85 °C, 70 % RH; RH: relative humidity), which is by far the highest conductivity reported among POM‐based single‐crystal proton conductors.​

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201806086