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High Resolution Physical Characterization of Single Metallic Nanoparticles
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Borate-templated self-assembly of multinuclear nickel(II)-containing POMs
Shujun Li1, Shuxia Liu, Qun Tang
1Key Lab of Polyoxometalate Science, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, PR China.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|August 10, 2013
Abstract:
Two unprecedented nickel-boron cluster-containing POMs have been isolated through a facile approach by the reactions of trivacant [A-α-SiW9O34](10-) and Ni(2+) in borate buffer. The {BO3} and {B2O4(OH)2} units enclosed in the Ni8 cluster of 1 and the Ni12 cluster of 2 play important templating roles in the assembly of the target compounds.
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