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Abstract | Inorganic aqueous metal–oxo clusters are both functional “molecular metal oxides” and intermediates to understand metal oxide growth from water. There has been a recent surge in discovery of aqueous Ti-oxo clusters but without extensive solution characterization. We use small-angle and total X-ray scattering, dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, and a single-crystal X-ray structure to show that heterometals such as bismuth stabilize labile Ti–oxo sulfate clusters in aqueous solution.[Ti22Bi7O41(OH)(OH2)30(SO4)12]2+ features edge-sharing between the Ti and Bi polyhedra, in contrast to the dominant corner-linking of Ti-oxo clusters. Bi stabilizes the Ti-polyhedra, which are synergistically stabilized by the bidentate sulfates. Gained stability and potential functionality from heterometals is an incentive to develop more broadly the landscape of heterometallic Ti–oxo clusters. |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie |
Volume | 56 |
Start Page | 16277 |
Issue | 51 |
Number of Pages | 16281 |
Date Published | December 2017 |
URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201709539/abstract |
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