Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Cerium-Encapsulated Selenotungstate Including Three Building Blocks and Its Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine and Paracetamol.

A novel organic-inorganic hybrid cerium-encapsulated selenotungstate comprising three polyoxotungstate building units Na16H6{[Ce3W4O10(H2O)9(CH3COO)3]2(Se2W7O30)(B-α-SeW9O33)4}·(C5H8NBO3)·119H2O (1) was synthesized by the portfolio approach of an in situ self-assembly reaction and step-by-step synthesis. The hybrid polyoxoanion of 1 is constructed from an acetate-coordinated heterometallic {[(Ce3W4O10)(H2O)9(CH3COO)3]2(Se2W7O30)}10+ core encompassing four trilacunary [B-α-SeW9O33]8- subunits. Interestingly, the heterometallic core contains a remarkable [Se2W7O30]10- building block in which seven WVI atoms form a W7 plane and two SeIV atoms are situated on two opposite faces of the W7 plane. In addition, the electrochemical performances of the 1@CFMCN composite (CFMCN: carboxyl-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube) were investigated. The 1@CFMCN/GCE (GCE: glass carbon electrode) sensor demonstrates a promising potential in electrochemically sensing dopamine (DPA) or paracetamol (PCM) or even simultaneously detecting DPA and PCM with low limits of 0.053 μM for DPA and 2.03 μM for PCM over a wide linear range at high sensitivity.