Facile synthesis of a hexanuclear zinc-acetato-trimethylsilylphosphinidene cluster: a single-source precursor to Zn3P2 nanoparticles

Kyungseop Lee; Yining Huang; John F Corrigan

doi:10.1039/c9cc04879k

Facile synthesis of a hexanuclear zinc-acetato-trimethylsilylphosphinidene cluster: a single-source precursor to Zn₃P₂ nanoparticles

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Sep 28;55(76):11466-11469. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04879k. Epub 2019 Sep 6.

Authors

Kyungseop Lee¹, Yining Huang², John F Corrigan²

Affiliations

¹ The University of Western Ontario, Department of Chemistry, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada.
² The University of Western Ontario, Department of Chemistry, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada and The Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials Research, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada. corrigan@uwo.ca yhuang@uwo.ca.

PMID: 31490487
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04879k

Abstract

The selective synthesis of the zinc-acetato-phosphinidene cluster [Zn₆(μ₃-PSiMe₃)₄(OAc)₄(NC₅H₅)₅] 1 is presented. The cluster serves as a stable, single-source precursor to yield soluble zinc phosphide nanoparticles via P-Si bond activation and AcOSiMe₃ elimination when heated in oleylamine or other donor solvents.