Hydroxyl-and-carboxyl ligand concatenating multi-lanthanide substituted tellurotungstates and electrochemical detection of noradrenaline

Abstract Developing and exploring organic–inorganic hybrid multi-lanthanide (Ln) implanted heteropolyoxometalates (HPOMs) has bloomed into an emerging research field. In this article, two neoteric D-gluconic acid (H6GA) concatenating multi-LnIII implanted heteropolytungstates K14H10[Ln4(H2O)4W6(H2GA)4O12(B-α-TeW9O33)4]∙60H2O [Ln = La3+ (1), Pr3+ (2)] were obtained in acidic aqueous system. Attractively, in the polyanion structure of 1 and 2, six WVI and four LnIII centers are connected by four flexible H2GA4− ligands via carboxyl and hydroxyl groups, resulting to the heterometallic [Ln4(H2O)4W6(H2GA)4O12]8+ cluster and then the heterometallic cluster is surrounded by four [B-α-TeW9O33]8– segments. Electrochemical measurements for the 1@CFMCN/GCE sensor (CFMCN = carboxyl-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube; GCE = glass carbon electrode) demonstrate that 1@CFMCN/GCE shows benign recognition response to detecting noradrenaline (NDA). This research expands the structural diversity of Ln-implanted HPOMs and presents an electrochemical platform of recognizing NDA in the field of biosensors.