Polyoxometalate coordinated phosphato complexes: a possible model reaction for POM-nucleotide interaction

The dephosphorylation of ATP in the presence of unsaturated heteropoly anion [SiW11O39]8− and transition metal ions, MnII, CoII, NiII and ZnII, generates phosphato derivatives, formulated as [SiW11O39M(P2O7)] 10−, (M= MnII, CoII, NiII and ZnII), which were also synthesized from pyrophosphate as a possible model reaction of polyoxometalate-nucleotide interaction.