Coordination assemblies of polyoxomolybdate cluster framework: From labile building blocks to stable functional materials

Polyoxomolybdates, an important branch in polyoxometalates chemistry, present complicated solution chemistry and unmatched physicochemical properties, which endows us with both great opportunities and considerable challenges in creating new functional materials. This perspective highlights the recent development on the coordination assembly of transition-metal-substituted heteropolymolybdates by using labile lacunary heteropolymolybdates as inorganic multidentate ligands. A series of strategies have been used to stabilize the lacunary heteropolymolybdate building blocks. Finally, we introduce some researches on the modification of polymolybdates by organic groups in aqueous media, which may shed light on the green chemistry of the functionalization of polyoxomolybdates.