Reversible conversion between phosphine protected Au6 and Au8 nanoclusters under oxidative/reductive conditions

Xiujuan Yang; Xinzhang Lin; Chao Liu; Ren'an Wu; Jinghui Yan; Jiahui Huang

doi:10.1039/c6nr09524k

Reversible conversion between phosphine protected Au₆ and Au₈ nanoclusters under oxidative/reductive conditions

Nanoscale. 2017 Feb 16;9(7):2424-2427. doi: 10.1039/c6nr09524k.

Authors

Xiujuan Yang¹, Xinzhang Lin², Chao Liu², Ren'an Wu³, Jinghui Yan⁴, Jiahui Huang²

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. yjh@cust.edu.cn and Gold Catalysis Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. jiahuihuang@dicp.ac.cn.
² Gold Catalysis Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. jiahuihuang@dicp.ac.cn.
³ Novel Technology for High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
⁴ School of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. yjh@cust.edu.cn.

PMID: 28150832
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr09524k

Abstract

In this study, we found that phosphine protected [Au₆(dppp)₄]²⁺ and [Au₈(dppp)₄Cl₂]²⁺ nanoclusters could be reversibly converted under oxidative/reductive conditions. This work not only provides new insights into the relationship between the [Au₆(dppp)₄]²⁺ and [Au₈(dppp)₄Cl₂]²⁺ nanoclusters, but also offers a novel method for controlling structural evolution of different Au nanoclusters.