A mild post-functionalization method for the vanadium substituted P2W15V3 Wells-Dawson polyoxometalate based on a copper catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition

Dalton Trans. 2017 Aug 8;46(31):10215-10219. doi: 10.1039/c7dt02450a.

Abstract

A mild post-functionalization method, based on a copper(i) catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, was developed for the fragile [P2W15V3]9- (PWV). PWV was functionalized with an azide and used as a platform to attach various alkyne functionalized compounds.