N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized Ag-P nanoclusters

Bahareh Khalili Najafabadi; John F Corrigan

doi:10.1039/c4cc06560c

N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized Ag-P nanoclusters

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jan 14;51(4):665-7. doi: 10.1039/c4cc06560c.

Authors

Bahareh Khalili Najafabadi¹, John F Corrigan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.

PMID: 25415342
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06560c

Abstract

The N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) 1,3-di-isopropylbenzimidazole-2-ylidene ((i)Pr2-bimy) is found to be an excellent ligand for the stabilization of silver-phosphorus polynuclear complexes. The straightforward preparation and characterization of the clusters [Ag12(PSiMe3)6((i)Pr2-bimy)6] (1) and [Ag26P2(PSiMe3)10((i)Pr2-bimy)8] (2) are described, representing the first examples of such structurally characterized, higher nuclearity complexes obtained using this class of ligands.