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Structure, properties and reactivity of polyoxometalates: a theoretical perspective

2012; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 41; Issue: 22 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c2cs35168d

1460-4744

Xavier López, Jorge J. Carbó, Carles Bó, Josep M. Poblet,

Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications

In the thematic review dedicated to polyoxometalate (POM) chemistry published in Chemical Reviews in 1998, no contribution was devoted to theory. This is not surprising because computational modelling of molecular metal-oxide clusters was in its infancy at that time. Nowadays, the situation has completely changed and modern computational methods have been successfully applied to study the structure, electronic properties, spectroscopy and reactivity of POM clusters. Indeed, the progress achieved during the past decade has been spectacular and herein we critically review the most important papers to provide the reader with an almost complete perspective of the field.