Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
5 years ago

A Simple Approach to the Visible-Light Photoactivation of Molecular Metal Oxides

A Simple Approach to the Visible-Light Photoactivation of Molecular Metal Oxides
Hiroki Oshio, Graham N. Newton, Victor Sans, Jamie M. Cameron, David Robinson, Satomi Fujimoto, Rong-Jia Wei, Katharina Kastner
Polyoxometalates (POMs) are redox and photoactive metal oxide clusters with various potential applications in next generation nanotechnologies. Although the vast majority of POMs absorb only in the UV region, we present a new strategy to photoactivate the metal oxide shell under visible-light irradiation. By grafting a variety of phosphonate moieties to the POM core, we show that it is possible to selectively tune the photoactivity of the POM via rational modification of the frontier orbital energies.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01499

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01499

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