A covalently linked dimer of [Ag25(DMBT)18]

Mohammad Bodiuzzaman; Abhijit Nag; Raghu Pradeep Narayanan; Ankush Chakraborty; Ranjit Bag; Ganesan Paramasivam; Ganapati Natarajan; Govindasamy Sekar; Sundargopal Ghosh; Thalappil Pradeep

doi:10.1039/c9cc01289c

A covalently linked dimer of [Ag₂₅(DMBT)₁₈]

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Apr 23;55(34):5025-5028. doi: 10.1039/c9cc01289c.

Authors

Mohammad Bodiuzzaman¹, Abhijit Nag, Raghu Pradeep Narayanan, Ankush Chakraborty, Ranjit Bag, Ganesan Paramasivam, Ganapati Natarajan, Govindasamy Sekar, Sundargopal Ghosh, Thalappil Pradeep

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, DST Unit of Nanoscience (DST UNS) and Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India. pradeep@iitm.ac.in.

PMID: 30968894
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc01289c

Abstract

We report the first example of a covalently bound dimer of monolayer protected atomically precise silver nanocluster [Ag25(DMBT)18]- (DMBT stands for 2,4-dimethylbenzenethiol). Covalently linked dimers could be important to design new cluster assembled materials with composite properties.