Hybrid polyoxometalate clusters with appended aromatic platformsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: TGA and DSC of compounds 3–5. Structures of 2–5as cif files are available. CCDC reference numbers 733962–733965. For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/b910434h

The assembly of polyoxometalate architectures based on Mn-Anderson clusters capped with different aromatic platforms viathe ‘Tris’ linker (Tris = tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane), allows the formation and isolation of four new hybrid polyoxometalate clusters of 2–5with the general composition of [n-N(C4H9)4]3[MnMo6O18{(OCH2)3CN = CH-R}2]·solv., (R = –(C6H5) 2, –(C6H5O) 3, –(C11H8N) 4and –(C13H9) 5; solv. = MeOH or H2O). These compounds were obtained simply by the reaction of compound 1, ([n–N(C4H9)4]3[MnMo6O18{(OCH2)3CNH2}2]), with the corresponding aldehyde and the aromatic platforms were chosen to explore the design principles for covalently constructed POM aromatic–organic–inorganic hybrids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]