Silver(I) Sulfide Clusters Protected by Rhodium(III) Metalloligands with 3-Aminopropanethiolate

Nobuto Yoshinari; Zi Lang Goo; Keisuke Nomura; Takumi Konno

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01309

Silver(I) Sulfide Clusters Protected by Rhodium(III) Metalloligands with 3-Aminopropanethiolate

Inorg Chem. 2023 Jun 19;62(24):9291-9294. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01309. Epub 2023 Jun 5.

Authors

Nobuto Yoshinari¹, Zi Lang Goo¹, Keisuke Nomura¹, Takumi Konno^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
² Department of Chemistry, College of Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.

PMID: 37272850
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01309

Abstract

The two homochiral Ag^IRh^III nanoclusters, Δ₆/Λ₆-[Ag₁₁S{Rh(apt)₃}₆]⁹⁺ ([1]⁹⁺) and Δ₆/Λ₆-[Ag₁₃S{Rh(apt)₃}₆]¹¹⁺ ([2]¹¹⁺), in which Ag₁₁S and Ag₁₃S cluster cores, respectively, are protected by fac-[Rh(apt)₃] metalloligands, were newly synthesized from fac-[Rh(apt)₃] (Hapt = 3-aminopropanethiol) and Ag⁺ in water in combination with sulfide sources. While [1]⁹⁺ was produced by using d-penicillamine as a sulfide source, the use of HS^- as a sulfide source afforded [2]¹¹⁺ without causing any precipitation of Ag₂S. Cluster [1]⁹⁺ was convertible to [2]¹¹⁺ via the reaction with Ag⁺, which led to a turn-on-type switch in photoluminescence from nonemissive [1]⁹⁺ to emissive [2]¹¹⁺.