Talk:Polyoxometalate

I think this needs to be rewritten by someone who speaks English!

Structure paragraph is not clear

I suppose this is due to later additions, but the 'structure' paragraph says that "The Lindqvist ion is an iso-polyoxometalate, the other three are hetero-polyoxometalates" while 11 structures are shown. 46.116.123.106 (talk) 12:03, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

3 dimensional

The expression "closed 3-dimensional framework" doesn't make much sense for a chemist. If you talk about dimensionality in chemistry it usually refers to polymers or coordination polymers, e.g. 1D string, 2D sheet, 3D framework (MOFs for example). Finite Clusters are even called zero dimensional in this respect, although this term tends to confuse more people than it should. Calling polyoxometalates "closed 3D frameworks" is wrong in my opinoin --Zwischenrufer (talk) 21:59, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Couple of suggestions

Based on my edits of the article, here are some humble suggestions (only suggestions, I dont make rules!):

• for a big topic like POMs, it is probably best to rely on reviews and textbooks, per WP:SECONDARY, not primary journal references.
• mention of people and institutions might be avoided unless some compelling reason exists. Just impossible to mention people/places that for every factoid within Wiki-chemistry.
• Real applications = some company is making money, usually. Extremely few supramolecular, crystal engineered, molecular capsuley, molecular magnetic, luminescent POMs are the basis of any real application, despite good intentions and dreams. POMs are actually used in commercial oxidation catalysis, I think. They are also central to manipulating these Mo-W oxides in aqueous soln, which is an application. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)