Surface engineering of linearly fused Au13 units using diphosphine and Cd doping

Tianrong Li; Qinzhen Li; Sha Yang; Liyun Xu; Jinsong Chai; Peng Li; Manzhou Zhu

doi:10.1039/d1cc00577d

Surface engineering of linearly fused Au₁₃ units using diphosphine and Cd doping

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 May 11;57(38):4682-4685. doi: 10.1039/d1cc00577d.

Authors

Tianrong Li¹, Qinzhen Li¹, Sha Yang¹, Liyun Xu¹, Jinsong Chai¹, Peng Li¹, Manzhou Zhu¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Center for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials (Anhui University), Ministry of Education, Hefei, Anhui 230601, P. R. China. yangshac@ahu.edu.cn peng-li@ahu.edu.cn zmz@ahu.edu.cn.

PMID: 33977990
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc00577d

Abstract

Herein, surface engineering was delicately performed to assemble two new Au-Cd alloy nanoclusters, including [Cd2Au17(S-c-C6H11)12(DPPP)2](BPh4) and Cd2Au29(TBBT)17(DPPF)2. Both the Au13 (in Cd2Au17) and Au25 (in Cd2Au29) cores were covered by two identical Au2Cd(SR)6 motifs and two diphosphine ligands. In addition, their optical properties were explored to give clues on the kernel- and surface-dependent electronic structures.