Observing the Hierarchical Self-Assembly and Architectural Bistability of Hybrid Molecular Metal Oxides Using Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometry

摘要

Polyoxometalates (POMs) are a class of anionic molecular metal oxide clusters existing between monomers and bulk infinite oxides based upon Mo, W, and V. Although POM clusters can be well defined, there is a vast library of architectures varying in size and charge, and their assembly under far from equilibrium reaction conditions can even be compared to that of proteins in terms of primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary building blocks.