Structure-Directing Role of Phosphonate in the Synthesis of High-Nuclearity Silver(I) Sulfide-Ethynide-Thiolate Clusters
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Synthesis of a Thiol Building Block for the Crystallization of a Semiconducting Gyroidal Metal-sulfur Framework
Published on: April 9, 2018
Jun-Ling Jin1, Yun-Peng Xie1, Han Cui2
1State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) , Wuhan 430074, China.
Abstract:
Phosphonate ligands as structure-directing components have been employed to construct four new high-nuclearity silver(I) sulfide-ethynide-thiolate clusters, in which silver(I) aggregates tBuC≡C⊃Ag3, tBuC≡C⊃Ag4, and 2tBuC≡C⊃Ag7 are bridged by tBuS- ligands to engender respective silver(I) ethynide-thiolate clusters functioning as integral shell components, which are supported by phosphonate ligands. In each silver(I) sulfide-ethynide-thiolate cluster, a different encapsulated silver sulfide cluster serves as a core template.
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