American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 45(135), p. 17155-17160, 2013
DOI: 10.1021/ja408228b
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A bottom-up approach to obtain nano-cluster and large, uniform vesicle-like structures containing organic functionalized hexamolybdates in solution state were developed. Hexamolybdate functionalized carboxylic acid coordinated with two copper ions to form paddle-wheel tetrapolyoxometalate clusters with the features of macroions, which can spontaneously assemble into large, stable blackberry-type structures in suitable solvents, completing a hierarchical organization from small POM molecules to nano-scale complexes and then to supramolecular structures.