“…Over the past few decades, polyoxometallates have been found to be extremely versatile inorganic building blocks for the construction of organic±inorganic hybrid materials, owing to the wide range of their topological properties and potential applications in catalysis, photochemistry, electrochromism and magnetism (Braun et al, 1999). An important class of metal oxide cluster based on molybdenum phosphate anions has been attracting much attention owing to the novel structures and unusual properties of these compounds (Guo & Liu, 2003); typical examples include (NH 4 ) 2 [(CH 3 ) 4 N] 2 [Fe 2 -Mo 12 O 30 (H 2 PO 4 ) 6 (HPO 4 ) 2 ] (Meyer & Haushalter, 1993), (H 2 en) 3 [P 2 Mo 5 O 23 ]Á6H 2 O (en is ethylenediamine; Aranzabe et al, 1997) (Lu et al, 1998), (H 2 en) 10 (H 3 O) 3 (H 5 O 2 )Na 2 [MnMo 12 O 24 (OH) 6 (PO 4 ) 4 -(HPO 4 ) 4 ][MnMo 12 O 24 (OH) 6 (PO 4 ) 6 (HPO 4 ) 2 ]Á9H 2 O (Xu et al, 1999), (C 4 H 12 N 2 ) 0.5 [Co(en) (Lu et al, 2005). Compared with ethylenediamine or pyridine templates, the hybrid materials containing diethylenetriamine (tren) or its ammonium cation remain largely unexplored (Lin et al, 2003).…”