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Zi-Yi Chen1, Dennis Y S Tam, Thomas C W Mak
1Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China. tcwmak@cuhk.edu.hk.
Abstract:
Inexpensive 1,1'-thiocarbonyldiimidazole and di(2-pyridyl) thionocarbonate have been used as respective sulfide precursors to assemble unprecedented high-nuclearity ethynide-stabilized silver(i) sulfido molecular clusters [Ag9S6@Ag36(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]C(t)Bu)32(H2O)2] [Ag(imidazole)(CH3OH)(H2O)](BF4)2·8H2O·2CH3OH (1) and [Ag120S24(PhC[triple bond, length as m-dash]C)52Cl4(2-pyridone)10(H2O)8](H3O)4(SiF6)8(BF4)4·CH3OH·22H2O (2), the latter being the largest isolated silver(i) ethynide cluster reported to date.
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