Stabilization of a new nanocomposite family by reduction of gold nanoclusters with electron-reservoir complexes

Fangyu Fu; Anthony Dedieu; Wenjuan Wang; Tao Chen; Yongbo Song; Eric Fouquet; Jean-René Hamon; Manzhou Zhu; Didier Astruc

doi:10.1039/c9cc05260g

Stabilization of a new nanocomposite family by reduction of gold nanoclusters with electron-reservoir complexes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 22;55(69):10277-10280. doi: 10.1039/c9cc05260g.

Authors

Fangyu Fu¹, Anthony Dedieu, Wenjuan Wang, Tao Chen, Yongbo Song, Eric Fouquet, Jean-René Hamon, Manzhou Zhu, Didier Astruc

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China. zmz@ahu.edu.cn.

PMID: 31396608
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc05260g

Abstract

Four stable 19-electron Fe and Co sandwich electron-reservoirs and three hydride reservoir complexes reduce the prototypal nanocluster Au25(SR)18 (R = CH2CH2Ph) leading to a largely increased kinetic stabilization of the anionic nanocluster form compared to previously known nanocluster anion salts; these salts represent new and robust nanocomposite anionic gold clusters with 18-electron sandwich complexes as counter cations.