A review of state of the art in phosphine ligated gold clusters and application in catalysis

RH Adnan, JML Madridejos, AS Alotabi… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold clusters are highly desirable due to their well‐defined structure
which allows the study of structure–property relationships. In addition, they have potential in …

Coinage metal clusters: From superatom chemistry to genetic materials

B Yin, Z Luo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

Suppression of kernel vibrations by layer-by-layer ligand engineering boosts photoluminescence efficiency of gold nanoclusters

Y Zhong, J Zhang, T Li, W Xu, Q Yao, M Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The restriction of structural vibration has assumed great importance in attaining bright
emission of luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), where tremendous efforts are devoted to …

Mechanistic Study of the Hydride Migration-Induced Reversible Isomerization in Au22(SR)15H Isomers

Q Li, Y Tan, B Huang, S Yang, J Chai… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unraveling the evolution mechanism of metal nanoclusters is of great importance in
understanding the formation and evolution of metallic condensed matters. In this work, the …

Crystal Structure of Faradaurate-279: Au279(SPh-tBu)84 Plasmonic Nanocrystal Molecules

NA Sakthivel, S Theivendran, V Ganeshraj… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the discovery of an unprecedentedly large, 2.2 nm diameter, thiolate protected
gold nanocrystal characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography (sc-XRD), Au279 (SPh …

Cd atom goes into the interior of cluster induced by directional consecutive assembly of tetrahedral units on an icosahedron kernel

Y Tan, Y Lv, L Xu, Q Li, J Chai, S Yang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
“Core sliding” in metal nanoclusters drives the reconstruction of external structural units and
provides an ideal platform for map** their precise transformation mechanism and …

Tailoring the Structure of 58-Electron Gold Nanoclusters: Au103S2(S-Nap)41 and Its Implications

T Higaki, C Liu, M Zhou, TY Luo… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and crystal structure determination of a gold nanocluster with 103
gold atoms protected by 2 sulfidos and 41 thiolates (ie, 2-naphthalenethiolates, S-Nap) …

Toward controlled syntheses of diphosphine-protected homochiral gold nanoclusters through precursor engineering

WD Si, YZ Li, SS Zhang, S Wang, L Feng, ZY Gao… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controllable syntheses of Au nanoclusters (NCs) with different nuclearities are of great
significance due to the kernel-dependent physicochemical properties. Herein, two pairs of …

Growth-rule-guided structural exploration of thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters

Y Pei, P Wang, Z Ma, L **ong - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Understanding the structure and structure–property relationship of atomic and
ligated clusters is one of the central research tasks in the field of cluster research. In …

De novo design of Au36(SR)24 nanoclusters

X Liu, WW Xu, X Huang, E Wang, X Cai, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of atomically precise nanoclusters is generally unpredictable, and the rational
synthesis of nanoclusters guided by the theoretical design is still in its infancy. Here we …