High-Nuclearity Silver Thiolate Clusters Constructed with Phosphonates

Yun-Peng Xie; Jun-Ling Jin; Xing Lu; Thomas C W Mak

doi:10.1002/anie.201507512

High-Nuclearity Silver Thiolate Clusters Constructed with Phosphonates

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2015 Dec 7;54(50):15176-80. doi: 10.1002/anie.201507512. Epub 2015 Nov 18.

Authors

Yun-Peng Xie¹, Jun-Ling Jin, Xing Lu², Thomas C W Mak³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074 (China). xieyp@hust.edu.cn.
² State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074 (China). lux@hust.edu.cn.
³ Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR (P.R. China).

PMID: 26577012
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507512

Abstract

The n-butylphosphonate ligand has been employed to construct three new silver(I) thiolate compounds. Single-crystal X-ray analysis revealed that complexes 1 and 2 are Ag48 and Ag51 coordination chain polymers, while 3 contains a discrete Ag48 cluster, in which three different kinds of silver(I) thiolate cluster shells enclose three different phosphonate-functionalized silver(I) cluster cores, respectively. The structures of clusters in 1-3 feature three three-shell arrangements, S@Ag12 @(nBuPO3 )9 @Ag36 S23 , S@Ag11 @(nBuPO3 )7 (MoO4 )2 @Ag40 S27 and MoO4 @Ag12 @(nBuPO3 )8 S6 @Ag36 S24 , respectively.

Keywords: cage compounds; clusters; phosphonates; silver; thiolates.

Publication types

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