On the option of generating novel type surfaces with multiphilic ligands within the cavity of a giant metal-oxide based wheel type cluster: chemical reactions with well-defined nanoobjects
A. Muller et al., On the option of generating novel type surfaces with multiphilic ligands within the cavity of a giant metal-oxide based wheel type cluster: chemical reactions with well-defined nanoobjects, CHEM COMMUN, (7), 2001, pp. 655-656
The reaction of an aqueous solution of sodium molybdate with cysteine hydro
chloride acting as educt and reducing agent at rather low pH values(approxi
mate to 1.5) results in the formation of Na-3[Mo154O462H14(H2O)(48)(HO2C-(N
H3+)HC-CH2-S-S-CH2-CH(NH3+)-COO-)(11)].x H2O 1 (x approximate to 250) conta
ining nanosized ring-shaped clusters which capture the oxidation product of
cysteine, i.e, the diprotonated cystine ligands (H(2)cystine(+)) at the in
ner wall of their cavities; interestingly, the multiphilic ligands containi
ng different types of functional groups (two -NH3+, one -CO2-, one -CO2H an
d one S-S-) attach to the inner wall of the cluster through one of the two
carboxylate groups thereby demonstrating the possibility to generate novel
type surfaces within the cavity of a nanostructured ring-shaped cluster.