Construction of metal-organic oxides from molybdophosphonate clusters and copper-bipyrimidine building blocks.

A series of organic-inorganic hybrid materials of the copper(II)-molybdophosphonate family have been prepared using conventional hydrothermal conditions. The reactions of MoO(3), copper(II) acetate, bipyrimidine (bpyr), a phosphonic acid, and water at temperatures below 160 degrees C and in the presence of a mineralizer such as acetic acid or HF provided crystalline samples of materials of the general class {Cu(2)(bpyr)}(4+)/Mo(x)O(y)-phosphonate. The recurrent themes of the structures are the presence of the binuclear {Cu(2)(bpyr)}(4+) and pentanuclear {Mo(5)O(15)(O(3)PR)(2)}(4-) building blocks.