Two novel high-nuclear Ni-substituted polyoxometalates Na
9K[Ni
7(OH)
4(H
2O)(CO
3)
2(HCO
3)(A-
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9O
34)(
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10O
37)]·5H
3O·18H
2O (
1) and K
6Na
4[{Ni
6(H
2O)
4(
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2-H
2O)
4(
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3-OH)
2}(
x-SiW
9O
34)
2]·17.5H
2O (
2) have been obtained by reaction of K
8[
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10O
36]with NiCl
2·2H
2O in basic conditions. Compounds
1 and
2 allrepresent the first polyoxometalates substituted by seven and sixNi centers, respectively. Also, compound
1 exhibits a novelasymmetric dimeric structure, composed of [A-
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9O
34]
10- and[
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10O
37]
10- units linked by a Ni
7 cluster and three carbonates,which exhibit tri- and bidentate coordination modes in
1.