Reaction of in situ generated copper(II)-
monosubstituted Keggin polyoxo
metalates and copper(II)-bipyridine-oxalateco
mplexes in the corresponding alkaline acetate buffer led to the for
mation of hybrid
metal organic-inorganicco
mpounds K
2[{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(H
2O)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}
2]·14H
2O (
1), K
14[{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}]
2[SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)]·55H
2O (
2), (NH
4)
4[{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}]·10H
2O (
3), and Rb
4[{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}]·10H
2O (
4). Their structures have been established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.The
main structural feature of these co
mpounds is the presence of copper(II)-
monosubstituted
mages/gifchars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0>-Keggin polyoxoanionsas inorganic building blocks, on which the
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-oxalatodicopper
metalorganic blocks are supported. Co
mpound
1contains the discrete hybrid polyanion [{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(H
2O)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}
2]
2-, whereas the poly
merichybrid polyanion [{SiW
11O
39Cu(H
2O)}{Cu
2(bpy)
2(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)}
2]
n4n- gives a
monodi
mensional character to co
mpounds
2-
4. Magnetic and EPR results are discussed with respect to the crystal structure of the co
mpounds. DFT calculationson both the [Cu
2(bpy)
2(H
2O)
4(
mages/entities/
mgr.gif">-ox)]
2+ cationic co
mplex and the
metalorganic blocks have been perfor
med in orderto deter
mine the opti
mized geo
metry and the
magnetic coupling constants, respectively.