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Exploring the origin of chirality in Ag8 clusters based on modular disassembly

Jingbin Hao,†a   Shenao Wu,†a   Jiayun Cao,a   Qinzhen Li, ORCID logo a   Jinsong Chai, ORCID logo a   Guiqi Gao, ORCID logo *a   Lin Xiong, ORCID logo *b   Sha Yang ORCID logo *a  and  Manzhou Zhu ORCID logo  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Atomic Engineering of Advanced Materials, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China
E-mail: gaoguiqi1@126.com, yangshac@ahu.edu.cn

b School of Food and Chemical Engineering, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang 422000, P.R. China
E-mail: linxiong@hnsyu.edu.cn

Abstract

A pair of chiral R/S-Ag8 clusters using chiral thiol ligands was reported. The R/S-Ag8 cluster can be disassembled into two Ag4 units, with one being a chiral twisted structure and the other a centrally symmetric structure. From DFT calculations, the different chiral origins of the two Ag4 units were revealed, and assembly further induces chiral enhancement.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC06965C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Dec 2025
Accepted
22 Dec 2025
First published
23 Dec 2025

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Exploring the origin of chirality in Ag8 clusters based on modular disassembly

J. Hao, S. Wu, J. Cao, Q. Li, J. Chai, G. Gao, L. Xiong, S. Yang and M. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5CC06965C

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