Issue 29, 2016

Heavily doped Au25–xAgx(SC6H11)18 nanoclusters: silver goes from the core to the surface

Abstract

We report a method for heavy doping of the Au25(SR)18 nanocluster (where R = C6H11) with silver through the Ag(I)–thiolate complex induced size/structure transformation of Au23(SR)16 into Au25–xAgx(SR)18. X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed that Ag dopants are distributed not only in the icosahedral core but also in the surface staple motifs; the latter was not achieved in earlier studies of alloy Au25–xAgx nanoclusters.

Graphical abstract: Heavily doped Au25–xAgx(SC6H11)18− nanoclusters: silver goes from the core to the surface

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Feb 2016
Accepted
10 Mar 2016
First published
10 Mar 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 5194-5197

Heavily doped Au25–xAgx(SC6H11)18 nanoclusters: silver goes from the core to the surface

Q. Li, S. Wang, K. Kirschbaum, K. J. Lambright, A. Das and R. Jin, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 5194 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01243D

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