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Chemical Precipitation Method for the Synthesis of Nb2O5 Modified Bulk Nickel Catalysts with High Specific Surface Area
Published on: February 19, 2018
High-nuclearity Ni-substituted polyoxometalates: a series of poly(polyoxotungstate)s containing 20–22 nickel centers
Xin-Xiong Li1, Shou-Tian Zheng, Jie Zhang
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China.
Abstract:
Three high-nuclearity Ni-substituted polyoxotungstates (POTs)--[Ni(enMe)2(H2O)2]2[Ni(H2O)6]2[Ni(enMe)2][Ni(H2O)2]1.5[HNi20X4W34(OH)4O136(H2O)6(enMe)8]·11 H2O (3), [Ni(en)2(H2O)]2[H8Ni21X4W34(OH)4O136(en)10(H2O)5]·22 H2O (4), and [Ni(enMe)2]2[H6Ni22X4W34(OH)4O136(H2O)6(enMe)10]·18 H2O (5), in which en = ethylenediamine, enMe = 1,2-diaminopropane, X = 0.5 P+0.5 Ge--were made under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structures of 3–5 can be viewed as novel derivatives of [H6Ni20P4W34(OH)4O136(enMe)8(H2O)6]·12 H 2O (1) and [Ni(en)2(H2O)]2[H8Ni20P4W34(OH)4O136(en)9(H2O)4]·16 H 2O (2), which both contain 20 nickel ions per structural unit. Compound 3 is the first example of a 1D cluster chain constructed from Ni20-substituted polyanions [HNi20X4 W34(OH)4O136(H2O)6(enMe)8]11− and [Ni(enMe)2]2+ bridges. Compound 4 is a novel cluster–organic chain built by Ni21-substituted polyanions [H8Ni21X4W34(OH)4O136(en)10(H2O)5]4− and en molecule bridges. Compound 5 is a discrete POT with 22 Ni centers, and is not only the largest nickel-substituted POT, but also contains the highest number of nickel ions in one polyanion to date. Magnetic measurements illustrate that overall ferromagnetic interactions exist in 1–5. The magnetic behavior of 1 and 2 was theoretically simulated by the MAGPACK magnetic program package.
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