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Shun Ito1, Shinjiro Takano1, Tatsuya Tsukuda1,2
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1 Hongo , Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan.
Abstract:
A series of homoleptic alkynyl-protected gold clusters Au22(C≡CR)18 were newly synthesized using 3-ethynylthiophene (ETP-H), phenylacetylene (PA-H), 3-ethynyltoluene (ET-H), and 3-ethynylanisole (EA-H). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis on Au22(ETP)18 revealed that a bitetrahedral Au7 core is protected by novel Au3(ETP)4 oligomers and a Au6(ETP)6 ring, composed of R-C≡C-Au(I)-C≡C-R units bridged by π-Au-π bonds. UV-visible and 1H NMR spectroscopy revealed that the R groups did not affect the geometric and electronic structures of Au22(C≡CR)18, whereas the photoluminescence quantum yield was dependent on the R group and showed the highest value of 4.6% when R = Ph.
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