Cross-Linking Organic and Polyoxometalate Chemistries

This paper is a choral personal account on a long-standing and fruitful collaboration of organic and inorganic chemists to develop new hybrid polyoxometallic systems. We explain our motivation and the context of our work that led to polyoxometalates with highly functional and reactive organic groups. Our approach yielded catalytically, biologically, and photochemically active systems.