| Autor: |
Xiao-Li Pei, Pei Zhao, Hitoshi Ube, Zhen Lei, Masahiro Ehara, Mitsuhiko Shionoya |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
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| Zdroj: |
Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-024-49295-w |
| Popis: |
Abstract Chemical etching of nano-sized metal clusters at the atomic level has a high potential for creating metal number-specific structures and functions that are difficult to achieve with bottom-up synthesis methods. In particular, precisely etching metal atoms one by one from nonmetallic element-centred metal clusters and elucidating the relationship between their well-defined structures, and chemical and physical properties will facilitate future materials design for metal clusters. Here we report the single-gold etching at a hypercarbon centre in gold(I) clusters. Specifically, C-centred hexagold(I) clusters protected by chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes are etched with bisphosphine to yield C-centred pentagold(I) (CAu I 5 ) clusters. The CAu I 5 clusters exhibit an unusually large bathochromic shift in luminescence, which is reproduced theoretically. The etching mechanism is experimentally and theoretically suggested to be a tandem dissociation-association-elimination pathway. Furthermore, the vacant site of the central carbon of the CAu I 5 cluster can accommodate AuCl, allowing for post-functionalisation of the C-centred gold(I) clusters. |
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