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Chemical Communications

A new reductant in gold cluster chemistry gives a superatomic gold gallium cluster†

Florian Fetzer,a   Claudio Schrenk, ORCID logo a   Nia Pollard, ORCID logo bc   Adebola Adeagbo, ORCID logo b   Andre Z. Clayborne ORCID logo *bc  and  Andreas Schnepf ORCID logo *a  

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a Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, Tübingen D-72076, Germany
E-mail: andreas.schnepf@uni-tuebingen.de
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b Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College Street NW, Washington, Columbia, USA

c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
E-mail: aclaybo@gmu.edu
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Abstract

The low valent gallium(I) compound GaCp was primarily used in gold cluster chemistry to synthesize the superatomic cluster [(PPh3)8Au9GaCl2]2+, complementing the borane-dominated set of reducing agents in gold chemistry, opening a whole new field for further research. Using density functional theory calculations, the cluster can be described by the jellium model as an 8-electron superatom cluster.

Graphical abstract: A new reductant in gold cluster chemistry gives a superatomic gold gallium cluster

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC07006H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Oct 2020
Accepted
04 Mar 2021
First published
04 Mar 2021

Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 3551-3554

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A new reductant in gold cluster chemistry gives a superatomic gold gallium cluster

F. Fetzer, C. Schrenk, N. Pollard, A. Adeagbo, A. Z. Clayborne and A. Schnepf, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 3551 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC07006H

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