Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society
5 years ago

Bidentate Phosphine-Assisted Synthesis of an All-Alkynyl-Protected Ag74 Nanocluster

Bidentate Phosphine-Assisted Synthesis of an All-Alkynyl-Protected Ag74 Nanocluster
Cai-Yun Wei, Jun-Hao Wang, Shuai-Ting Yan, Yu-Wei Wu, Jian-Rong Li, Mei Qu, Xian-Ming Zhang, Huan Li, Lin-Hua Xie
Determining the total structure of metal nanoparticles is vital to understand their properties. In this work, the first all-alkynyl-protected Ag nanocluster, Ag74(C≡CPh)44, was synthesized and structurally characterized by single crystal diffraction. Ag atoms are arranged in a Ag4@Ag22@Ag48 three shell structure and all 44 phenylethynyl ligands coordinated with Ag in a μ3 mode. In spite of being absent in nanocluster, 31P NMR study reveals that bidentate phosphine first reacts with Ag(I) to form a dinuclear complex, from which Ag atoms are then released to phenylethynyl ligands. This phosphine mediated strategy may find general application in synthesis of alkynyl-protected Ag nanoclusters.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b05243

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05243

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