Self-assembly of an unprecedented polyoxomolybdate anion [Mo20O66]12- in a giant peanut-like 62-core silver-thiolate nanocluster

Ren-Wu Huang; Qing-Qing Xu; Hong-Lin Lu; Xiao-Kang Guo; Shuang-Quan Zang; Guang-Gang Gao; Ming-Sheng Tang; Thomas C W Mak

doi:10.1039/c5nr00171d

Self-assembly of an unprecedented polyoxomolybdate anion [Mo20O66]12- in a giant peanut-like 62-core silver-thiolate nanocluster

Nanoscale. 2015 Apr 28;7(16):7151-4. doi: 10.1039/c5nr00171d.

Authors

Ren-Wu Huang¹, Qing-Qing Xu, Hong-Lin Lu, Xiao-Kang Guo, Shuang-Quan Zang, Guang-Gang Gao, Ming-Sheng Tang, Thomas C W Mak

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. zangsqzg@zzu.edu.cn.

PMID: 25811751
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr00171d

Abstract

A polyoxometalate-templated silver thiolate nanocluster, [Ag62(S(t)Bu)40(Mo20O66)(Mo6O19)3(CH3CN)2]·(CF3SO3)4 (1), has been isolated, in which a giant peanut-like silver(i)-thiolate cluster [Ag62(S(t)Bu)40](22+) encapsulates an unprecedented [Mo20O66](12-) polyoxoanion core. It opens a new approach for the synthesis of both elusive polyoxometalates and high-nuclearity silver(i)-thiolate nanoclusters.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't