Reactivity of metal–oxo clusters towards biomolecules: from discrete polyoxometalates to metal–organic frameworks

DES Marcano, ND Savić, K Declerck… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–oxo clusters hold great potential in several fields such as catalysis, materials science,
energy storage, medicine, and biotechnology. These nanoclusters of transition metals with …

Recent advances in polyoxometalates acid-catalyzed organic reactions

YF Liu, CW Hu, GP Yang - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyoxometalates (POMs) have conducive properties such as controlled Brønsted and
Lewis acidity, high thermal stability, nontoxic nature, tunable solubility, and less …

Effective storage of electrons in water by the formation of highly reduced polyoxometalate clusters

JJ Chen, L Vilà-Nadal, A Solé-Daura… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous solutions of polyoxometalates (POMs) have been shown to have potential as high-
capacity energy storage materials due to their potential for multi-electron redox processes …

The forgotten chemistry of group (IV) metals: A survey on the synthesis, structure, and properties of discrete Zr (IV), Hf (IV), and Ti (IV) oxo clusters

Y Zhang, F de Azambuja, TN Parac-Vogt - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Group (IV) metal oxo clusters are a diverse class of compounds with rapidly growing
applications in catalysis, materials chemistry, electronics and optics. They possess unique …

Contemporary approaches for amide bond formation

P Acosta‐Guzmán, A Ojeda‐Porras… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Amide bond construction has garnered significant interest in recent decades due to amides
being one of the most prevalent functional groups among bioactive molecules. Out of the …

The dawn of metal-oxo clusters as artificial proteases: from discovery to the present and beyond

F Azambuja, J Moons… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The selective cleavage of peptide bonds in proteins is of paramount importance
in many areas of the biological and medical sciences, playing a key role in protein …

Coupling Ni3POM with FeOOH on BiVO4 Photoanodes for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

C Hu, C Xu, X Li, B Li, X Ma, J Zhu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting provides a reasonable and feasible strategy to
capture and transform solar energy, which employs a manner analogous to photosynthesis …

Recent advances in mono-lacunary Keggin-type polyoxometalate-based crystalline materials: From synthetic strategies, diverse structures to functional applications

M Wang, J Pang, J Wang, J Niu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The mono-lacunary Keggin-type polyoxometalate (MLKP)-based crystalline materials are of
significant interest due to their remarkable structural characteristics and functionalities …

En route to a heterogeneous catalytic direct peptide bond formation by Zr-based metal–organic framework catalysts

F de Azambuja, A Loosen, D Conic… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptide bond formation is a challenging, environmentally and economically demanding
transformation. Catalysis is key to circumvent current bottlenecks. To date, many …

Activation of H2O2 over Zr(IV). Insights from Model Studies on Zr-Monosubstituted Lindqvist Tungstates

NV Maksimchuk, VY Evtushok, OV Zalomaeva… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Zr-monosubstituted Lindqvist-type polyoxometalates (Zr-POMs),(Bu4N) 2 [W5O18Zr (H2O)
3](1) and (Bu4N) 6 [{W5O18Zr (μ-OH)} 2](2), have been employed as molecular models to …